Perbedaan Regulasi Emosi Berdasarkan Jenis Kelamin dan Rentang Usia pada Remaja dengan Orangtua Bercerai

Abstract

Adolescents have characteristics of emotion instability however it is not yet known whether emotion regulation difference exists seen from gender and stage of adolescence (early, middle, late). This study aims to describe and to find out the differences of emotion regulation reviewed by gender and age range in adolescents with divorced parents in Malang City. The research respondents amounted to 150 who will be divided by gender and age range. The instrument in this research uses emotion regulation scale made by researcher. This research uses quantitative approaches with the type of descriptive comparative research. The result showed that there are no differences of emotion regulation reviewed by gender in adolescents with divorced parents in Malang City with sig value (2 tailed) = .540. Other result show that there are differences of emotion regulation reviewed by age range of early adolescents with middle adolescents also early adolescents with end adolescents who has divorced parents in Malang City with sig value (2 tailed) = .005 and .000 but there are no differences of emotion regulation reviewed by age range middle adolescents with end adolescents who has divorced parents in Malang City with sig value (2 tailed) = .989. Based on gender and age, the sampling technique with a larger and more even number of respondents is an important suggestion for future research, in addition to the involvement of the emotional regulation strategy variables.