Pengaruh Verbal Abuse, Kualitas Komunikasi Orang Tua dan Konformitas Teman Sebaya Terhadap Perilaku Agresif Remaja

Abstract

Verbal abuse communication is a phenomenon that occurs in society, provides tremendous impact in the long-term behavior of children. With the lack of attention and communication between children and parents, it could also contribute to the change of children's behavior; the children-parents disharmony will greatly influence the development of children both physically and psychologically. This study aims to observe the influence of verbal abuse communication of parents, communication quality and conformity of same-age friends in affecting aggressive behavior. This study uses social learning theory and is supported by several supporting theories in order to assist in clarifying the relation between variables; parental rejection theory, and social comparison theory. Method of the study is quantitative. Data collection technique employed is questionnaire with 99 teenagers at Simpang Tiga Pekanbaru as sample through random sampling technique. The results showed that an influence of the verbal abuse communication of parents toward the aggressive behavior of 0,575;communication quality of parents toward the aggressive behavior of 0,522; in the conformity of same-age friends toward the aggressive behavior of 0.677 in the strong category. The total influence of verbal abuse communication of parents, communication quality of parents and conformity of same-age friends toward the aggressive behavior is 0.478 in the moderate category. Thus, the four variables of the study provide positive effect in influencing aggressive behavior.