Communication and Social Skills of Preschool Children as Affected by their Mother’s Employment Status

Abstract

Preschool children have several developmental characteristics, including language development and social development. We can judge their communication and social skills based on both developments. These sorts of children's skills are strongly influenced by their mother as the closest person in the children's lives. However, nowadays many mothers have a dual role, that is having a job/career outside the home besides taking care of the household. It is undeniable then that mothers have very limited free time compared to mothers who do not work to stay with their children. This study aims to determine the differences in communication skills and social skills of preschool children's socialization as reviewed based on the mother's employment status. The number of these samples was determined by employing the census technique. Data was collected by structured observation method with a checklist tool. Analysis of research data using the Mann Whitney Non Parametric technique resulted in the Mann Whitney coefficient for communication skills and social skills with p values of 0.000. Thus, it can be concluded that there is a difference between their communication skills and social skills.