THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE LEVEL AND SOCIAL INTERACTION ABILITY IN MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN (Original Research)

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE LEVEL AND SOCIAL INTERACTION ABILITY IN MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN (Original Research)

intelligence leve;, social interaction ability; mental retardation

Introduction: Children with mental retardation tend to have intellectual limitations than
average and are along with impaired social adjustment abilities.Therefore, mentally
retarded children experience social communication difficulties, even communication.
This study aims to analyze the relationship between intelligence level and social
interaction skills in mentally retarded children at SLB Idayu Pakis Malang.
Method: The design of this study was quantitative with a cross-sectional approach. The
population in this study were Idayu Special School students with mental retardation with
a sample size of 30 respondents. The sampling technique uses total sampling. The data
collection was using a documentation sheet based on reports from teachers for IQ scores
and checklist sheets adapted from Vineland-3. The analysis of the data used is a satirical
test with a spearman correlation test.
Results: The results of the analysis obtained p = 0.000 with p value < 0.05 and (r) 0.648.
This result showed a correlation between intelligence level and social interaction ability
in mentally retarded children at SLB Idayu Pakis Malang.
Conclusions: This research is expected could be used as a reference in adding guidance
to mentally retarded children in order to develop intellectual skills to improve their social
interaction skills through play therapy activities.

Putri Ida Rahayu and Feriana Ira Handian

http://dx.doi.org/ 10.20473/pnj.v4i2.37017

UNAIR

September 2022

Sri Wahyuni

ISSN : 26563894

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