The Effectiveness of E-Book App Story Telling of Traditional Game Story Series to Increase the Attachment between Parents and Children

Abstract

The involvement of parents to tell story to the children takes important role to increase attachment. This research aimed to figure to examine the effectiveness of traditional game story series e-book app to increase the attachment between parents and children. The method used was quasi experiment with pre-post control group design. The population of this research consists of 32 kindergarten students which were split to experimental group and controlled group. The experimental group was given storytelling treatment through e-book app series. To measure the result, there was attachment scale used in pretest and posttest. The data was analyzed by using independent t test sample and paired t test sample. The result of the research showed that there was significant attachment between pretest and posttest score within experimental group. Meanwhile, within the controlled group, no significant attachment was found. It can be concluded that traditional game story e-book series can increase the attachment between parents and children. The result of this research supports the previous research conducted by Frude & Killick (2011) which explains that the story telling done by parent to the children increase the attachment.

A Scoping Review of Digital Interventions to Improve Communication Between Children and Their Parents

“…Out of the included articles, four ([3]; [9]; [19]; [22]) had a lower than 50% score on the QATSDD risk of bias test [23]. Higher scores respond to a lower risk of bias.…”

“…Four of the included studies ([3]; [6]; [9]; [11]) used action research or observational research of child-parent interactions or play around digital innovations while two used qualitative interview designs to complement their observations ( [22]; [25]). A single study [19] used a quasi-experimental design to trial E-book reading by parents to children.…”

“…Where stated, studies were conducted in the UK ( [3]; [9]), USA ([6]; [25]) and Canada [11], and with study durations ranging from single occasions or days ( [11]; [19]), through weeks ([6]; [25]) to two years [9]. Two studies ( [3]; [22]) did not note study durations and two studies ( [19]; [22]) did not mention location.…”

“…One study [6] used an app meant to encourage tweens (preadolescent children) to engage with nature but used interactions with parents as an output. Rather than applications, one study [19] looked at E-book reading by parents to children. See table 3 for a summary of intervention functions used in the included studies.…”

“…Saputra and Ekawati [19] used a traditional game e-book series app with the support of Smart Apps Creator (SAC), an interactive digital media used to establish multimedia content for mobile devices to examine the effectiveness of traditional game story series e-book apps to increase the attachment between parents and children. The study aim was to measure sub-indicators of the attachment scale including parent-children contact, emotional bonding and parent impressions.…”