THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE PERCEPTIONS ON PARENTING STYLE AND ADOLESCENTS’ AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR

Abstract

To determine the relationship between the perception of parenting style toward adolescents’ aggressive behavior. Method: This was a quantitative study with a cross-sectional design. The population was the students of 10 and 11 grade of State Senior High School 10 Pekanbaru. About 168 of them were selected using Cluster Sampling, and questionnaire as the instrument, while the data analysis used a Chi square test. Result: The results showed that 20 respondents perceived authoritarian parenting style with very high aggressive behavior of 13 persons (65.0%), the permissive was perceived by 31 respondents with high aggressive behavior of 21 persons (67.7%), and 100 respondents perceived the democratic with medium aggressive behavior of 45 persons (45%). The result indicated the P-value <0.001, meaning that there was a significant correlation. Conclusion: The school’s stakeholders are expected to monitor the development of students' behavior, and the parents need to be consistent in order to overcome the adolescents' problems.