Abstract:
The purpose of study was to find out the role of parents in fostering self-confidence for the fishermen’s’ children studying in college at Bantan Air village
sub-district of Bantan the regency of Bengkalis. The right thing in the study was
that the parents educated their children until college. The method used in the study
was descriptive and the population of study was parents numbering 30 parents.
The writer did not take any sample because the population of study was not much.
In collecting the data about the role of parents in fostering self -confidence for the
fishermen’s’ children studying in college the writer used questionnaires directed
to the respondents or parents. The data which have been collected were analyzed
quantitative approach it was product moment correlation technique. After
collecting and analyzing the data the writer concluded that there was the role of
parents in fostering self-confidence for the fishermen’s’ children studying in
college at Bantan Air village sub-district of Bantan the regency of Bengkalis. The
analysis resulted the statistic reliability with amount of 0.951. The score means
the role of parents in fostering self-confidence for the fishermen’s’ children
studying in college. In other word, the better parents’ role and more the students
will study in college.
