Gambaran Perilaku Temper Tantrum Pada Anak Autis di Slb - B dan Autis TPA Kabupaten Jember

Abstract

People with autism have a temper tantrum in the form of walking back and forth, expressing emotions by behaving crying out tears continuously with a duration that up to a day, crying while screaming, expressing anger by hitting (hitting yourself, others and hitting objects around them ), throwing objects and biting fingers, and banging the head. The general objective of this study was to determine temper tantrum behavior in autistic children in SLB-B and TPA Autism in Jember Regency. This research uses descriptive exploratory research method with cross sectional approach. The sample of this study was 31 respondents aged 7-19 years. The instrument in this study was the Tempertantrum questionnaire where there were 31 questions that were declared valid, the questionnaire had 4 answers. The results showed that the age of autistic children was at most 13 years on average. The highest sex in the study was 24 boys (77.4%). In this study 20 autistic children (64.5%) did therapy and 11 autistic children (35.5%) did not take therapy. The highest level of education is elementary school with 21 autistic children (67.7%). The description of the tempertantrum behavior of autistic children getting tempertantrum results in autistic children is in the high category where 15 children (48.4%) showed high temperantrum and 28 children (90.3%) showed high temporal temperaments. Therefore, it is possible if the tempertantrum of autistic children is included in the high category, then children with autism will be increasingly out of control and will endanger the autistic child itself and those around him.