Jhoni Warmansyah, Yufiarti, Wuryani
This study aims to determine the relationship between socioeconomic status and school readiness in children aged 5-6 years. The hypothesis of this research is there is a positive relationship between socioeconomic status and school readiness in children aged 5-6 years in Padang City, West Sumatera province. The sample of this research was 96 children aged 5-6 years in kindergarten which was taken using simple random sample techniques. The collection of socioeconomic status data using of Likert-scale questionnaire distributed to parents consisting of 30 indicators of family income, parental work, parental education, and living conditions, while School readiness is measured through School Readiness (CARES) consisting of 42 indicators of academic knowledge, basic thinking skills, emotional social maturity, physical development of motor, self-discipline and communication skills (Fayez et al., 2016). Based on the analysis of the data using Spearman analysis of correlation, researchers found that the correlation of the coefficient was rxy= 0,811 with P=0.000 (P < 0.01). The results showed that a proposed hypothesis was accepted, that there was a positive relationship between the socioeconomic status and the school's readiness in children. The higher the socioeconomic status, the higher the school readiness. © 2020 SERSC.
Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia; Institut Agama Islam Negeri Batusangkar, Indonesia
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