Role of Family Communications in Adolescent Personal and Social Identity

Maulana Rezi Ramadhana,Drajat Tri Kartono,Prahastiwi Utari,Ravik Karsidi

doi:10.29244/jfs.4.1.1-11

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Abstract

This study examines the relationship between family communication patterns (involving two dimensions of conversation and conformity) and the personal-social identity of adolescents. This study uses a survey technique involving 214 adolescents from intact families and single-parent families in one school in Bandung, by providing two scales of the Family Communication Pattern Revised (FCPR) from Ritchie and the scale of Social Identity-Personal Identity (SIPI) from Nario-Redmond. Data analysis to test three hypotheses in this study using Pearson product-moment correlation and regression analysis to find moderation of the measured variables. The findings indicate that the dimensions of the conversation are significantly positively related to social identity and personal identity. While the dimensions of conformity are negatively associated with social identity and positively associated with personal identity. After controlling for family status and sibling position in the family, the dimensions of conformity moderate significantly positive relationships between dimensions of conversation and social identity.

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Adolescence is a period of transition to adulthood, a period of self-exploration through interaction with family, and developing perceptions about himself (McDonald & Kim, 2001)
The results show that the age of parental marriage is not significantly related to social and personal identity (r = −.11, p = 0.10)
While the dimensions of conformity are negatively related to social identity and positively related to personal identity

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Adolescence is a period of transition to adulthood, a period of self-exploration through interaction with family, and developing perceptions about himself (McDonald & Kim, 2001). Adolescents who are resolving an identity crisis are those who experience problems related to trust, autonomy, initiative, and industry, and about responsibility for the challenge of developing each of the previous stages. The concept of the teen identity crisis described by Newman & Newman and based on Erikson's identity thinking, the teenage period was referred to as 'Identity versus Identity Confusion,' emphasizing the search for individual identity. The development of the theory that contributes to the adolescent crisis in Sepetri explained by Marcia (1966) about the identity development model that identifies the stages that a teenager goes through in exploring their identity through social interaction, in the end, is related to commitment to that identity

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