Mother Responsiveness Model on Children Under 2 Years Development

Mother Responsiveness Model on Children Under 2 Years Development

Abstract

Health Polytechnic Jakarta I, Ministry of Health **Departement of Public Health Science, Airlangga University *** Departement of Nursing Science, Airlangga University **** Departement of Medical Sci­ence, Airlangga University Abstract Early Detection of Children Growth and Development carried in bulk in Blitar in 2008. As much as 5545 examined children were suspected of having problems of child development as many as 404 children, or about 7.2%. This research was observational, with two stages namely exploratory and descriptive research. This was cross sectional study on mothers and children aged 3 months to 2 years in Blitar. The variables studied were: mother factor, child factor, father support, health care, mother responsiveness, emotions, and child development. Results of the study were: (1) Mother responsiveness model was confirmatory theory models built from blanded theory namely mother role attainment and ecology with the substitution of mother responsiveness. (2) The model has good predictive power because all the constructs of the latent variables of each pa­rameter estimates provide a strong effect on the performance of nurses. (3) The value Goodness of Fit of 0.35 means that this model can increase mother responsiveness to the child's development. Infer­ential data analysis was using Smart Partial Least Square (Smart-PLS). The new findings, mother re­sponsiveness models on development of children aged under two years. There are two factor that affect mother responsiveness, namely child factor and the father factor. Furthermore, Things affecting the development of children are mother factor, health care and emotional factor. Keywords: mother responsiveness, child development.