Character Education with Multiple Intelligences Learning Strategy to Enhance Interpersonal Intelligence Based on Emotional Intelligence

Abstract

This research is aimed to know: (1) The difference between multiple intelligences and conventional learning strategy to enhance the interpersonal intelligence of students of psychology; (2) the influence difference between students possessing low and high level on emotional intelligences toward the emotional intelligences of students of psychology; and (3) the relationship between the multiple intelligences learning strategy and the emotional intelligences toward the interpersonal intelligences of students of psychology at Universitas Negeri Malang. The research method in this case uses quantitative experiment. The instruments used in this study are MSCEIT, a test to measure the emotional intelligence, and questionnaire for analyzing the interpersonal intelligence. The data are analyzed using ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) two tails (2 x 2). The research hypothesis test results indicated that: (1) there are significant differences between the effects of multiple intelligences and conventional learning strategy to interpersonal intelligences of students of psychology at UM with a significance 0.05; (2) there is an influence difference between students possessing low and high emotional intelligences toward interpersonal intelligences of students of psychology 2015/2016 UM with a significance 0.05; and (3) there is a relationship between multiple intelligences learning strategy and interpersonal intelligences of students of psychology at UM with a significant number 0.03.