TY - JOUR AU - Calista, Monycha Helaina AU - Fithriyah, Izzatul AU - Utomo, Budi AU - Setiawati, Yunias PY - 2023/01/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Correlation between Mother’s Psychological Stress and Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Elementary School Age Children JF - Journal of Medical and Health Studies JA - jmhs VL - 4 IS - 1 SE - Research Article DO - 10.32996/jmhs.2023.4.1.2 UR - https://al-kindipublisher.com/index.php/jmhs/article/view/4425 SP - 14-21 AB - <p>The condition of psychological stress experienced by the mother will affect the child's emotions and behaviour. Emotional and behavioral problems in children could continue to be serious disorders if they are not managed earlier. This study aims to analyze the correlation between the psychological stress of the mother and the emotional and behavioral problems of elementary school age children. This research used analytic observational research with a cross-sectional research design. The study population was students in grades I-VI at SD Negeri Surabaya and used total population sampling. The results of the study were tested with spearman's rho test, which showed that there was a relationship between the mother's psychological stress and the emotional and behavioral problems of elementary school-aged children p-value=0.022 (p&lt;0.05) had a positive relationship. The higher the stress level experienced by the mother, the higher the level of emotional and behavioral problems experienced by the child.</p> ER -