Journal of Family Science
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2019): Journal of Family Sciences

The Influence of Paternal Spirituality and Attachment on Boys’ and Girls’ Characters in Junior High School

Fannisa Septariana (IPB University)
Dwi Hastuti (IPB University)



Article Info

Publish Date
03 Jul 2019

Abstract

Proper parenting reflected on the goodness of parental spirituality and attachment in which affected adolescents' character development. The research was aim to examine the influence of paternal spirituality and attachment towards adolescents' character. This study used a cross-sectional study design which involved 84 respondents from one of the public high school in Bogor City and consisted of 37 boys and 47 girls, samples were chosen by cluster random sampling technique. Data were analyzed descriptively, independent t-test, Pearson correlation, and multiple linear regression. Data was gathered by self-report questionnaires. The research found that paternal spirituality and attachment had a better score than the boys. Also, politeness and perseverance characters of girls better than the boys. Moreover, the better paternal spirituality and attachment the better character of adolescents. The result of the multiple linear regression test shows that paternal spirituality and attachment became the main factors in affecting adolescents' character in junior high school.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jfs

Publisher

Subject

Social Sciences

Description

Journal of Family Science (JFS) is a scientific journal providing researched paper on the subject of family ecology, family development, family interaction, and any topics related family studies published two times a year by the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Faculty of Human Ecology, ...