Spiritual Story Telling (SST) to Improve Violent Behavior Control

Ability in Children

Wahyu Endang Setyowati and Iwan Ardian

Faculty of Nursing, Sultan Agung Islamic University, Semarang, Indonesia

Keywords: Violent Behavior, Spiritual, Story Telling.

Abstract: Introduction: Anger is often associated with aggressive behavior and other forms of violence. The purpose

of this study is to prove that spiritual story telling is able to control anger behavior in children, especially

violent behavior. Through tale, children will learn to understand a concept and cause; and learn to find

solutions from every life event experienced. Method: The research type is Quasi-experiment with pre-

posttest group design by giving a certain treatment to a subject group that is observed before and after

intervention. The sample in this research was 30 respondents of treatment. This study has been tested

statistically, the Wilcoxon test was done to identify the decline in behavior before and after Spiritual Story

Telling treatment. Result and Analysis: By bivariate test using Wilcoxon ranks test, it was shown that the

significant value was 0.00 and it was less than α (0.05). Therefore, it can be stated that there is a significant

difference between before and after intervention. Conclusion: Spiritual Story Telling is significantly able to

reduce violent behavior in adolescents.

1 BACKGROUND

Violent behavior is an extreme result of anger or fear

(Yosep, 2010). Anger is a normal expression of

feelings for the individual, but this feeling of anger

can be manifested by behavioral changes from

adaptive until maladaptive range. In the adaptive

range, a person can usually express anger in a

healthy way to achieve psychological satisfaction

and it does not affect future interpersonal

relationships. Healthy anger is expressed without

blaming others and gives peace.

Anger that leads to violent behavior can occur at

any age, ranging from the age of children, teens,

adults to the elderly. The behavior that emerges can

be a verbal, social, emotional, intellectual and

spiritual expression. In the theory of excitement,

behavior is a basic human need if the needs are not

met through constructive behavior then the

individual will meet his needs through destructive

behavior.

Children, with all their limitations due to their

growth factors that have not been optimal, have the

inability to manage their wants or needs. A relatively

small age makes them less able to control anger that

leads to violent behavior ranging from mild to very

destructive violent behavior. A stable emotion is

believed to be a dominant factor, so that, children

are less able to manage the perceived anger through

unhealthy behavior.

Learning theory stated that violent behavior is

the result of individual learning to the nearest

environment with examples of models and behaviors

imitated from the media or the surrounding

environment to allow individuals to imitate the

behavior. We often find news in the media that a

child is capable of performing behaviors that are

very self-destructive to others and the environment.

The incident is caused by the accumulation of

frustration that occurs when the child's desire to

achieve something is failed or inhibited.

2 METHODS

The research design used was Quasy Experiment

with pre-post-test design. The population is the early

adolescent in Semarang city. The sampling

technique used simple random sampling with

inclusion criteria of adolescence at the early age and

willing to be a sample; and the middle-aged

adolescents with exclusion criteria and not willing to

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Setyowati, W. and Ardian, I.

Spiritual Story Telling (SST) to Improve Violent Behavior Control Ability in Children.

DOI: 10.5220/0008331206960698

In Proceedings of the 9th International Nursing Conference (INC 2018), pages 696-698

ISBN: 978-989-758-336-0

be respondents. Sample selection by selecting

children who engage in violent behavior of 90

children, 30 of whom experienced violent

behavior.There were 30 respondents obtained. The

independent variable is Spiritual Story Telling, while

the dependent variable is Improved Ability to

control violent behavior. Instruments used are:

1) Questionnaire A: it is to collect demographic

data which includes respondents’ code, age,

education, and occupation,

2) Questionnaire B: it is to measure Violent

Behavior (RUFA)

3 RESULTS

The implementation of this research can be said

successful and satisfying the research team.

Technically, it began from the preparation of getting a

very good response from the school and the

respondent. During the study, all the respondents

were enthusiastic to attend Spiritual Story Telling till

the end.

Prior to Spiritual Story Telling, 89% of the

children were unable to control violent behavior.

From the respondents' explanation, it was revealed

that violent behavior often becomes a means of

satisfying emotions and expressing anger. Expression

of anger is usually done in the form of insinuating,

chasing, punching, being rude, insulting, doing

activities that hurt the physical, social and emotion.

While, 37% of them stated that they cannot recognize

the anger they experience, and have a tendency to

deny when they are angry.

After the Spiritual Story Telling, the children have

got enlightenment in the form of the ability to control

violent behavior and natural feelings of anger (89%).

Spiritual Story Telling has been proved to be able

to improve the ability to control violent behavior on

children. the introduction of the fairy tales was

packed and tailored to their gender. Male students

prefer the heroism-themed fairy tales, while the

female students prefer the fantasy tales. The stories

of the tales contain some inputs in the form of

spiritual contents to increase the ability of

understanding its spiritual aspects.

4 DISCUSSION

Spiritual Story Telling has been proved to be able to

improve the ability to control violent behavior on

children. the introduction of the fairy tales was

packed and tailored to their gender. Male students

prefer the heroism-themed fairy tales, while the

female students prefer the fantasy tales. The stories

of the tales contain some inputs in the form of

spiritual contents to increase the ability of

understanding its spiritual aspects.

Some obstacles experienced by the researchers

were such as storytelling time that was considered

less than optimal, because it requires additional

sound effects through the sound system in order to

strengthen the dramatization of the storyline. Also,

the selection of story-telling hours that were on the

sidelines of school lessons also reduced

concentration, because children must share their

attention and responsibility to follow the next

learning process. Chamandar (2017), said from her

research said that in order to evaluate the content of

stories of aggresive children based on their drawings

on DAS Test, the animal pictures, first a graph was

prepared for analizing the stories and then according

to the research question, the finding were reported.

The extent that the stories content emphasized on the

agrression components was the main issues of her

study.

5 CONCLUSION

After this research has been conducted, the next step

is to do the conclusion analysis i.e. the answer from

the research objectives that have been formulated.

The conclusions that can be submitted are as follows :

First; Violent behavior is a common occurrence in

children. Most respondents have not been able to

control violent behavior well. The violent behavior

experienced is the result of their inability to recognize

the sources of anger and express it well.Second: The

results can be felt after the Spiritual Story Telling has

been conducted, the respondents can recognize their

anger and are able to control violent behavior in a

good way.

Research in the future should consider to involve

some supports including a more lenient time and to

design supporting properties in the form of sound

system with more supportive music background.

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