Abstract

The service sector which is growing rapidly in Indonesia, is high school in Indonesia led to increasingly competition to win sympathy from prospective students who have graduated junior high school (SMP) to choose the high school that have been provided. This study aimed to: (1) to determine the significance of social factors influence (X) consisting of the reference group (X1), family (X2), the role and social status (X3) for making decisions on studies in Catholic Senior High School (SMAK) Kolese Santo Yusup Malang (Hua Ind). (2) To determine the social factors that has the most dominant influence on the decision-making studies at Catholic Senior High School (SMAK) Kolese Santo Yusup Malang (Hua Ind). The type of research is explanatory research. The population is all male and female students who are studying in SMAK Santo Yusup Malang (Hua Ind) and sample in this study consist of 303 male and female students grade I to grade III. The data analysis is using multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that 56.2% of male and female students chose decision SMAK Santo Yusup Malang Colleges (Hua Ind) is influenced by social factors (X) consisting of the reference group (X1), family (X2), and the role and social status (X3 ), while the remaining 43.8% is influenced by other factors outside the social factor. Based on the results of F test and t test, we can know that social factors (X) consisting of the reference group (X1), family (X2), and the role and social status (X3) simultaneously and partially has significant effect on the decision on both male and female students in choosing SMAK Santo Yusup Malang (Hua Ind). The variables that significantly influence the decision of male and female students in choosing SMAK Santo Yusup Malang (Hua Ind) is the role and social status (X3) with indicator influence health club (X21) and organizations such as OSIS (X22).

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