Abstract
Mother is person who very close to her child, mother always caring and pay attention, this closeness creates child's trust to his mother. Trust is what makes children feeling that the mother is the most comfortable people to share all their complaints without demeaning. This study aims to explore the child's closeness with his mother and the reason. This research used qualitative research with constructive realism method, the subject of this research are 60 students that aged 20-28 years, the subject was asked: "how close to his mother and made a reason why the subject was close to his mother?". FGD was conducted on six-person subjects, and open interviews with 1 subject, data analysis using categorization method. The results of this study indicate that there are 6 categories of reasons children believe to mothers, which are caring (20.57%), understanding (20%), sincere (18%), attention (17.67%), patient (9.67%), resilient (9.35% ) and others (4.74%). The FGD results and interviews show that the main reason for child trust is mother caring and understanding, caring is shown by always trying to meet the children needs, giving a good example, and giving the best to his family. Understanding from mother makes child tell various things and accepted. Keywords: caring; mother; trust; understanding.
Highlights
Mother is person who very close to her child, mother always caring and pay attention, this closeness creates child's trust to his mother
Trust is essential in a relationship, trust is the foundation of reciprocal relationships experienced by individuals, including the relationship between mother and child
The child's trust in the mother will create a sense of devotion of the child to the mother even though it is not part of the adult development task
Summary
Mother is person who very close to her child, mother always caring and pay attention, this closeness creates child's trust to his mother. The results of this study indicate that there are 6 categories of reasons children believe to mothers, which are caring (20.57%), understanding (20%), sincere (18%), attention (17.67%), patient (9.67%), resilient (9.35% ) and others (4.74%). The FGD results and interviews show that the main reason for child trust is mother caring and understanding, caring is shown by always trying to meet the children needs, giving a good example, and giving the best to his family. The foundation of trust in others convince individuals to engage in reciprocal relationships and accept the consequences (Johnson & Cullen, 2017). The presence of trust between mothers and children create meaning in their relationship (Johnson & Cullen, 2017). The three foundations of interpersonal trust are believing that others are keeping their promises; honesty, when the other is telling the truth and engaging in guided behavior; and emotion, which is believing that the others restrain themselves emotionally (Rotenberg et al, 2015)
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