Abstract
This study aimed to analyze the influence of maternal acceptance-rejection and self-esteem adolescents on bullying behavior of junior high school students. The study took place at two junior high schools located in Bogor City and involved 86 students who were selected using simple random sampling. The measuring instrument used in this study was a PAR adaptation from Rohner (1986) with a reliability of 0.785, self-esteem instrument adaptation from Rosenberg's (1965) with a reliability of 0.773, and a bullying behavior instrument adaptation from Hastuti, Herien, and Djaswelma (2015) with the reliability of 0.902. Data analysis used in this study was descriptive statistical analyses and statistical analyses of Pearson correlation and linear regression tests. The data were collected using self-administered questionnaires guided by the researcher. The results showed that more than half of adolescents had perceptions of affective parenting. However, about 40 percent of adolescents have self-esteem in the low category. The most common type of bullying behavior adolescents is verbal bullying. The test results showed that parents with aggression and undifferentiated rejection are unfortunately related to the adolescents’ bullying, and low adolescents’ self-esteem is followed by bullying behavior. Gender (male adolescents) and low self-esteem had a significant effect on bullying behavior. Meanwhile, parental rejection had a significant positive effect on bullying behavior.
Highlights
Deviant behavior and problems that occur among adolescents today are quite diverse, for instance bullying behavior
This study aims to identify the characteristics of adolescents, family characteristics, maternal acceptance-rejection, self-esteem, and bullying behavior of junior high school students
This study aims to analyze the relationship between maternal acceptance-rejection, and self-esteem with the bullying behavior of junior high school students
Summary
Deviant behavior and problems that occur among adolescents today are quite diverse, for instance bullying behavior. The results of research conducted in 66 countries and regions from five continents indicated that bullying is very prevalent throughout the world, as many as 32 percents of early adolescents aged 13-15 years who were reported to have been bullied at least once in the last two months (Due & Holstein, 2008). The results of the symposium conducted by UNICEF in 2016 and attended by 100,000 adolescents from 18 countries showed that two-thirds of the teenagers present were reportedly involved in bullying behavior. In Indonesia, bullying behavior has widespread in school-age children and mostly occurs in educational environments. This study involved junior high school students because the problem of bullying was more often found in middle school age children. This funding is in line with Shaheen et al
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