SOSIALISASI PENINGKATAN KARAKTER MORAL DAN ETIKA ANAK DENGAN PSIKOEDUKASI BERBASIS SHORT MOVIE

Childhood is a very vulnerable period where children begin to learn moral and ethical values ​​that will shape their personalities in the future. This community service program aims to develop psychoeducation through a short film entitled "TOPI" to improve children's morals and ethics. The service method uses a Community-Based Research (CBR) approach with a one-group pre-test-post-test design. The research sample took 48 children (n=48) from the child population in Grogol Diwek village, Jombang. The effectiveness of the CBR approach by providing psychoeducation can be determined by comparing the scores between before and after the learning is provided. The Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test was used as a method to test effectiveness where significant results (p<0.05) were found in the pre-test - post-test. These results show that the psychoeducation used in this service is effective in improving children's morals and ethics. The limitation of this service is that some participants already have sufficient knowledge about moral and ethical character, so that after being given psychoeducation the increase in their knowledge scores is not too much.