Penelitian ini melihat hubungan antara temperamen anak toddler dan interaksi ibu-anak di keluarga miskin. Temperamen anak ditunjukkan dengan adanya tiga dimensi, yaitu surgency, negative affectivity, dan effortful control. Penelitian ini menggunakan alat ukur Early Child Behavior Questionnaire- Very Short Form untuk mengukur temperamen anak toddler, dan The Parents Interacting with Children: Checklist of Observation Linked Outcomes (PICCOLO), untuk mengukur interaksi ibu-anak. Alat ukur Early Child Behavior Questionnaire-Very Short Form telah diadaptasi oleh Hildayani (2014). Teknik statistik yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Pearson Product Moment Correlation. Penelitian ini melibatkan 71 responden ibu yang memiliki anak toddler dan berasal dari keluarga miskin. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa tidak ada hubungan yang signifikan antara dimensi temperamen anak, yaitu surgency, negative affectivity, dan effortful control dan interaksi ibu-anak di keluarga miskin (p>0,05, tidak signifikan pada L.o.S 0,05.
This research was made to find the relationship between toddler`s temperament and mother-child interaction in poverty family. Toddler temperament is measured include surgency scale, negative affectivity scale, and effortful control scale. This research is using Early Child Behavior Questionnaire- Very Short Form for assessing toddler temperament, and The Parents Interacting with Children: Checklist of Observation Linked Outcomes (PICCOLO) for assessing mother-child interaction. Early Child Behavior Questionnaire-Very Short Form is adapted by Hildayani (2014). Data was analyzed using Pearson Product-Moment Correlation. Participants were 71 mothers who have toddlers in poverty family. The result is there are not significant between toddler temperament scale, are surgency, negative affectivity, and effortful control, and mother child interaction in poverty family (p>0.05), no significant at the L.o.S 0.05).