The Effect Of Listening To Quran Recitation On Social-Emotional Development In Pre-School Children During Covid-19 Pandemic

Received: November, 13, 2020 Revised: February, 7, 2021 Available online: May 2021 Covid-19 pandemic, a non-natural disaster, has a prolonged impact on children, such as trauma. The biggest challenge for children with a pandemic is a growing risk that affects cognitive, behavioral, and emotional abilities. This study analyzes listening to Quran recitation on social development in pre-school children at Baitul Karim Quran Education Center. The research design used Quasy-Experiment with pretest-posttest approach with control group design. Fifty-four pre-school children at TPQ Baitul Karim were the population with 48 respondents by cluster sampling technique. The independent variable was listening to Quran recitation, while the dependent variable was social-emotional development. The instrument utilized a questionnaire sheet. Data were analyzed by the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and Mann-Whitney test with a significance p<0.05. The results showed that there was no significant difference in social-emotional development before intervention between intervention and control groups. Meanwhile, its result in post-test was p=0.000 (p<0.05), there was a significant difference in the social-emotional development after intervention between both groups. In conclusion, listening to Quran recitation affects social-emotional development in pre-school children during the pandemic. Also, there is a difference between listening to Quran recitation and classical music. Listening to classical music does not affect socialemotional development in pre-school children.