Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dampak kekerasan verbal yang dilakukan anggota keluarga terhadap aspek social emosional anak usia dini 2-4. Dengan pendekatan studi kasus dengan metode kualitatif ditemukan bahwa kekerasan verbal pada anak usia dini mayoritas dilakukan ibu dengan berbagai bentuk: penolakan, ungkapan tidak sesuai usia, marah berlebihan, meremehkan, membandingkan dan pengancaman. Penyebab ibu melakukan kekerasan verbal diantaranya: factor ekonomi, pendidikan, kemarahan terhadap pasangan serta cara pandang orang tua tentang anak dan factor lingkungan. Dampak terhadap aspek social emosional anak: a) intensitas kekerasan disekitar, ditiru anak dan sulit dibendung orang tua, b) selalu harus nomer satu, (c) instruktif, (d)agresif dan sensitif, (e)sulit mengalah, (f)ketergantungan pada ibu tinggi.
Ketika anggota keluarga sering membentak, anak juga melakukan pada orang lain bahkan berani membentak orang tuanya sendiri serta hilangnya kemandirian dan rasa percaya diri anak. Maka, tingkat kematangan social emosional anggota keluarga sangat berpengaruh terhadap perkembangan aspek social emosional anak usia dini.
Impact of verbal, social emotional, family, early childhood violence
This study aims to determine the impact of verbal violence by family members on the emotional social aspects of early childhood 2-4. With a qualitative case study approach, it was found that verbal violence in early childhood is mostly carried out by mothers in various forms: rejection, age-old expression, excessive anger, disparaging, comparing and threatening. The causes of mothers carrying out verbal violence include: economic factors, education, anger towards partners and parents' views on children and environmental factors. Impacts on children's emotional social aspects: a) intensity of violence around, imitated by children and difficult to stem parents, b) always must be number one, (c) instructive, (d) aggressive and sensitive, (e) difficult to succumb, (f) dependence in high mothers.
When family members often yell, children also do to others even dare to yell at their own parents and lose their independence and self-confidence. So, the level of emotional social maturity of family members is very influential on the development of emotional social aspects of early childhood.