The Relationship between Parents’ Educational Attainment, Children’s Worship Behavior, and Personality at PAUD Saqeena Insani, Seluma Regency
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https://doi.org/10.59944/postaxial.v4i1.2436Keywords:
Parents' Education Level, Worship Behavior Child Personality, Early Childhood Education, Ex-Post FactoAbstract
This study examines the relationship between parents’ educational attainment and the worship behavior and personality of children aged 5–6 years at PAUD Saqeena Insani, Cahaya Negeri Village, Sukaraja District, Seluma Regency, Bengkulu, Indonesia. The study was motivated by differences in parents’ educational backgrounds and concerns regarding children’s religious routines, Iqra reading, independence, emotional regulation, and socialization. A quantitative approach with an ex-post facto design was employed. The study involved 15 parent–child pairs selected through total sampling. Data were collected using structured questionnaires and documentation and analyzed through descriptive statistics and simple linear regression using SPSS version 16. The findings revealed a statistically significant positive relationship between parents’ educational attainment and children’s worship behavior ((B=0.833), (t=5.483), (F=30.062), (p<0.001), (R2=0.698)). The model accounted for 69.8% of the observed variation in worship behavior. In contrast, the relationship between parents’ educational attainment and children’s personality was not statistically significant ((B=0.280), (t=1.041), (F=1.085), (p=0.317), (R2=0.077)). The personality model accounted for approximately 7.7% of the observed variation in personality scores. These findings suggest that parents’ educational attainment was significantly associated with children’s worship behavior in the study sample, whereas the analysis did not provide sufficient evidence of a significant linear relationship with children’s personality. The findings should be interpreted cautiously because of the small sample size and ex-post facto design
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