Parents-child Bondings, Social Support and Self-esteem among High School Students at Bogor City, Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the effect of child characteristics, family characteristics, parent-child bonding, social support, and self-esteem. The study used cross sectional design. The selection of research sites was chosen purposively in Bogor City. The location of the study was conducted in five high schools. Sample of this research is adolescents aged 14-19 years who have complete parents. The selection of samples was performed using a census sampling technique in adolescents. Respondents in this study were adolescent with a total of 861 people. Data were collected through self-report using questionnaire. The findings found parent-child bonding, social support, and self-esteem included in the middle category. The results of the correlation test indicate that the age of the father, the mother's age, the length of the father's education, the length of maternal education, family member, income, and parent-child bonding are positively significant with social support. The effect test results indicate that parent-child bonding and social support have a significant positive effect on self-esteem.