Integration of Life Skills in Outdoor Education Program Towards Interpersonal Communication

The purpose of the study was to determine and test the differences in the influence of three groups, namely two groups of outdoor education programs and one group of daily activities on interpersonal communication skills. The method used in this study was an experiment with a pretest-posttest control group design with more than one experimental group and a quantitative approach. The sample involved was 42 (21 females and 21 males) who were studying in the physical education department of PGSD level one. The Life Skills Scale for Sport (LSSS) questionnaire as an instrument with a reliability level of 0.92 and a validity of 0.63. Data analysis was carried out using Statistical Product and Service Solution (SPSS) on Windows version 22. The findings of the study showed that the integrated outdoor education life skill program had an effect with a significance value of .000 <0.05, the non-integrated outdoor education program had an effect with a significance value of .026 <0.05 and daily activities had no effect with a significance value of .108> 0.05. simultaneously between the three groups there was a significant difference. The conclusion is that integrated and non-integrated life skill outdoor education programs have an effect on interpersonal communication, but the integrated life skill outdoor education program is better. While in the control group there is no significant effect.