Bullying-Related Social Skills Instrument: within the Extracurricular Activities in Educational Context

Fitri Dwi Arini

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The purpose of this study is to develop an instrument to measure the level of social skills of children with disabilites related to bullying behavior. This is a developmental research, where the instruments that was developed is in the form of self-assessed questionnaire. The social skills instrument developed was using four dimensions that strongly related to bullying behavior, namely, emphaty, self-control, assertiveness, and cooperation. The development process were following four stages. First, a literature review was conducted for constructing the operational definition. Items for the instrument were 3 point Likert-type. The instruments then validated by peer evaluation and its reliability measured using internal consistency method. The result of the study is an instrument measuring the bullying-related social skills which ideally used within the extracurricular activities context where all children gather to socialized in a controlled environment.

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