Abstract
The purpose of this study is to identify parent’s behavior and their influence on the tendency of students behaving delinquently. This research was conducted among 86 high school students in three public high schools in Gombak area, Selangor. Samples were chosen based on their records of disciplines and were high risk youths in their school because of behaviors problem. Three types of parent’s behavior, which are, verbal behaviors, physical behaviors and anti-social behaviors were assessed to determine their influences on the student’s delinquency such as violent behaviors, abused and general delinquency such as skipping school for no reason. The result showed that there was no significant association between parent’s behaviors with student’s delinquency. However, findings indicated that several items in parent’s physical behavior (e.g. father is a fierce man) and verbal behavior (e.g. parents always nags me about my behaviors) have moderate link and contribute to the delinquent outcomes of the students. This results demonstrated that several parenting behavior have negative impact on teenagers. Furthermore, anti-social behavior scored low in association with student’s delinquent behaviors. The findings revealed that parent’s behaviors are not the main risk factor that contributes to the student’s delinquent behaviors but other external factors such as friends, media and environment experiences might associated to student’s delinquent attitudes thus need more further research in this area.
Highlights
Adolescence is the period where teenager’s transit from childhood to adulthood and time where they keep exploring themselves and the environment
The results indicated that high levels of verbal behavior comes from only one item where the statement parent always nags me about my behaviors (84.4%) is the most agreed response from the respondents as it obtained the highest mean of 4.17 compared to other statements
Delinquent students only behave at a moderate level of delinquent behaviors
Summary
Adolescence is the period where teenager’s transit from childhood to adulthood and time where they keep exploring themselves and the environment This time is called as period of stress and periods of increase autonomy (Harris-McKoy and Cui, 2013). At the range of 12 to 18 years old, teenagers are still not fully mature and need of parent attention and guidance (Steinberg and Silk, 2002). This suggests that parent’s roles are critical need parents to look back on their parenting behavior in order to lean their children towards the positive side (Smetana et al, 2005; Fuziah et al, 2009). If back in the old day, we often hear that teenager delinquent behavior usually occurred in the cities or urban areas, today such problems are often heard happening in rural areas such as in Feldas and villages (Badrulzaman, 2006)
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