Development of the Storybook "I'm Not an Elephant" to Prevent Verbal Bullying in Children Aged 5-6 Years

Abstract

This research was motivated by the problem of verbal bullying among children at school. This bullying problem also occurs frequently among children in Indonesia, based on data from the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI), namely 37,381 cases of violence reported against children. This research aims to develop a storybook product entitled "I'm Not an Elephant" to determine the feasibility, practicality and effectiveness of storybooks in preventing verbal bullying in children aged 5-6 years. This type of research uses Research and Development with the ADDIE model with 5 stages, namely analyze, design, development, implementation, evaluation. The subjects in this research were children aged 5-6 years, teachers, material and media expert lecturers. The storybook that was developed was carried out in a validation test to determine its suitability for material expert lecturers with a score of 87.5% so that the storybook was declared suitable for use. Furthermore, for media suitability from media expert lecturers with a score of 83.3%, the storybook was declared suitable for use. The storybook has also been tested for practicality by teachers in school institutions with scores of 87.5%, 95% and 100%. The three teachers at the school indicated that storybooks were very practical to use in learning at school. Furthermore, the effectiveness of storybooks has been analyzed using Wilcoxon test calculations using SPSS 25 which shows that asymp.Sig (2-tailed) is 0.000 so that p < 0.05 or 0.000 < 0.05, because the results show significance is smaller than 0.05 then Ho is rejected and Ha accepted, meaning that there is an effect of using storybooks to prevent verbal bullying in children aged 5-6 years.

Keywords: Story books, verbal bullying, children aged 5-6 years