The Effect of Role Play Method towards Mother’s Behaviour about Sibling Rivalry on Preschool Children in PAUD KB Bukit Siwalan Gresik Pre-Experimental research

Preschool stage is tranforming stage from baby stage into school stage. Many health issues can come about in this stage. One of them is family relation issue that is sibling rivalry. This sibling rivalry can caused by lack of knowledge from mother. 80% of mother that having more than one children in PAUD KB Bukit Siwalan Gresik said did not know about sibling rivalry. 60% mothers scolded their children when seeing their children fight, 30% advised them and 10% dissociate each others. This study used Pra-Experimental one group pre-post test design. Populations were mothers that having more than one children in PAUD KB Bukit Siwalan Gresik. There were 20 samples taken by purposive sampling technique. The independent variable was health education about sibling rivaly using role play method. The dependent variable was mother’s behaviour (knowledge, attitude and practice) towards sibling rivalry on preschool children. Data were collected using questionnaires and observation checklist. Data were analyzed using Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test with level of significance p ≤ 0.05. The result showed that helath education through role play method has an effect on mother’s knowledge about sibling rivalry with p= 0,002. Helath education through role play method also effect on mother’s attitude about sibling rivaly with p= 0,001, and mother’s practice about sibling rivalry with p=0,002. It can be concluded that role play method significantly increase knowledge, attitude and practice to sibling rivalry among mothers with children in PAUD KB Bukit Siwalan Gresik. Role play method could be applied as health education for mother to increase knowledge, attitude and practice. Keyword : role play, knowledge, attitude and practice, sibling rivalr