Rev 2 Umbar Sapta Riyanti Anxiety Test for Special Students

Anxiety Test for Special Students

By UmbarSaptaRiyanti

         

Students with special needs have a relatively more sensitive personality compared to normal students who is a student with specifically different mental, social, e specifically different mental, social, emotional, or physical characteristics from those of a normal student (Lakshita, 2017: 7). They are classified into several categories, namely: students with visual impairment, students with hearing impairment, students with speech impairment, students with intellectual disability, student with physical impairment, students with emotional and social impairment, and gifted students. Every students are falling under each categories have their own level of social anxiety along with its characteristics.

Anxiety is emotional response toward perceived view, indicating the feeling of fear, nervousness, and insecurity accompanied by various physical responses. It may occur in various contexts of situation or due to illness. This reactions often followed by the urge to escape the source of anxiety (Stuart and Sundeen, 1998). Anxiety is nonspecific sign and reaction resulted from autonomous nervous system activity upon uncertain, nonspecific, as well as of found threat, and usually is a normal emotional response (Carpenito, 2000). Freud (Calvin S. Hall, 1993) identified three types of anxiety, namely: realistic anxiety, neurotic anxiety, and moral anxiety.

The development of test instrument was implemented using modified procedure recommended by Mccoach(2013; 277-283), consisting of the following nine steps. Based on the result of trial testing analysis, the instruments develop used to collect data at SLB by involving 102 students as respondents. It aimed to figure out the member of components formed and the items valid for the test. Instrument reliability was calculated using Cronbach’s Alpha test.

Reliability is correlation between the scale of item and the respondents answering said item (Robinson, 1991: 10). The concept of reliability means the degree to which is an instrument produce reliable result (SaifudinAzwar, 2014: 7). Estimation of Instrument’s Reliabilityis calculated using internal consistency approach of Cronbach’s Alpha formula. Reliability value obtained from Cronbach’s Alpha approach was 0,832. Five components were found from the anxiety test developed, indicated by the acquired eiqen value.Based on the discussion, it can be concluded that the instrument of anxiety test used to identify anxiety on student with special needs is valid and reliable.

References:

Setiawan, A. &Astuti, W. (2010).Development of Children’s Anxiety Test Special Needs, Proceding International Seminar on Education. 2018. p. 91-96. http://jurnal.ustjogja.ac.id

Saifudin Anwar. (2014). ValiditasdanReliabilitas.Yogyakarta :PustakaPelajar.