THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTAL PARENTING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOR EMOTIONAL CHILDREN WITH AUTISM IN LANGSA CITY, ACEH INDONESIA

Abstract

Background: Autism is a complex developmental disorder, which is related to communication, social interaction and imagination activities, the number of children with autism is increasing in the United States so that boys are four times more likely to be diagnosed with autism disorder and in 2015, there were 873,000 children between the ages of 3 and 17 diagnosed with autism. The WHO in 2018 reported that 1 in 160 children had autism spectrum disorder. Many parents do not understand how to provide optimal parenting to children with autism, because lack of knowledge about parenting, causes children to continue to suffer from autism, so parents have no hope for their child's future. Objective: To determine the relationship between parental parenting and the development of socio-emotional behavior of autistic children in Langsa city. Methods: The quantitative study used  a Cross Sectional  design with a Correlative hypothesis with 34 respondents of parents (mothers) who have children 2-5 years old. Results: The results of this study showed that most parents showed poor parenting 73.5% and good parenting 26.5%, while as many as 85,3% showed poor child behavior and 14,7% good child behavior. Bivariate analysis shows a p value < α 0.05 so it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between parenting patterns and the social emotional behavior of autistic children in Langsa City.