Parental Involvement Level on Preschool Student’s Communication Development

Anggela Ezra Angin; Suziyani Mohamed

Children's communication development can be improved with parental involvement. However, busy working parents spend less quality time with their children. Thus, this study identified the parental involvement level in the development of communication among preschool students. Research design used in this study was a quantitative approach through survey study. Parental involvement in reading was applied as the questionnaire instrument with some modifications to measure the parental involvement level in the development of communication. The questionnaires using a 5-point Likert scale were distributed to the respondents via Google Form. The respondents of this study were 300 parents or guardians from 29 preschool classes in Telupid, Sabah, who were selected via simple random sampling technique. Data collection and analysis was performed by Statistical Package Social Science (SPSS) software. Descriptive statistics were used to obtain the mean value, standard deviation and percentage of parental involvement on the development of communication among preschool students. The results of this study indicated that the parental involvement level in the development of communication was very high. This showcased the awareness of parents of their responsibility to be involved in their children's communication development. Discussion of the results found that parental involvement has a positive influence on the development of children's communication. Parents must increase their involvement to achieve optimal and holistic development of their children.

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