Perbedaan Kecerdasan Emosional Siswa Mengikuti dan Tidak Mengikuti Ekstra Kurikuler di SMA Al Hikmah Medan

Abstract

This study aims to determine the differences in emotional intelligence of students who follow and do not attend Extracurricular in AL HIKMAH Medan High School. Emotional intelligence is the ability a person has in a social sense such as having motivation, being able to recognize emotions, being able to understand others, respecting others, having perseverance, being able to establish good relationships with others. This study uses emotional intelligence scale based on Golleman (2015) aspects, namely recognizing self emotions, managing self emotions, motivating oneself, recognizing the emotions of others, collaborating with others. The hypothesis proposed in this study is that there is a positive difference from the emotional intelligence of students who take part in the extracurricular activities and students do not attend extracurricular activities. The research subjects were 66 people, 33 students who followed and 33 students who did not take extracurricular activities. The sampling technique is total sampling and quota sampling. The measuring instrument used is the Emotional Intelligence scale using a Likert scale. Processing of this research data using t-test. The results showed a difference of 0,000 with p <0.05, this means that there were significant positive differences between students who followed and did not attend Extracurricular activities at AL HIKMAH Medan High School.