Abstract
This study aims to examine the effect and the role of (1) parents' attention on early childhood character education; (2) parents' affection on the early childhood character education; (3) security on the early childhood character education; and (4) parents' attention, parents' affection, and security on the early childhood character education silmultaneously. The method of this research was ex-post facto research. The populations in this study were parents and children in kindergarten of Bima city. Samples from the population were taken from 2 sub-districts namely the Rasa Na'e Barat sub-district and Punda sub-district, which consist of 157 Parents. Instruments used in this research were observations and questionnaires. Meanwhile the data analysis was carried out by using certain techniques which was Inferential Statistics with multiple regression analysis. The result of this study showed that the role of parents' attention on early childhood character education has a significant effect of 0.570 and parents' affection love also has a significant effect on character education of early childhood actually as much as 0.572. While the analysis on the effect of security on character education for early childhood is 0.453. Multiple regression tests show that there was a very large effect from parents' attention, affection and safety in early childhood character education which was 30,618. These results proved that the role of attention, affection, and security given by parents directly affects the character education of early childhood.
Highlights
The environment is a place where children grow and taproot so that the environment can play a role in shaping the character of early childhood education
The results of calculations in correlation (R) and multiple regression F tests to test the effect of the variables of attention (X1), affection (X2), and Sense of security (X3) together on the character Education (Y) are shown in table 2 below: Table 2
The results of the T-Test calculation on multiple regression to test the effect of the variables of attention (X1), affection (X2), and security (X3) separately on character education (Y) can be seen in table 3 below: Variables
Summary
The environment is a place where children grow and taproot so that the environment can play a role in shaping the character of early childhood education. The family becomes the first school in learning where parents become teachers or role models in charge of educating and guiding children [1,2]. Parents have an important role in educating and nurturing their children to be individuals who are good, intelligent, and skilled in their daily lives. The role of parents in children's education is to provide basic education, attitudes, and basic skills, such as religious education, ethics, courtesy, aesthetics, compassion, security, and teaching behavioral that is consistent with what is taught in the school [4, 5, 6]. With the involvement and attention of parents can have a positive impact in increasing motivation and shaping good values of children
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