Open AccessCommunication Pattern and Family Typology of High School Adolescents in Bogor - West Java
Author(s) -
Firdanianty Firdanianty,
Djuara P. Lubis,
Herien Puspitawati,
Djoko Susanto
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
jurnal komunikasi ikatan sarjana komunikasi indonesia/jurnal komunikasi ikatan sarjana komunikasi indonesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2548-8740
pISSN - 2503-0795
DOI - 10.25008/jkiski.v2i1.95
Subject(s) - conformity , conversation , typology , psychology , orientation (vector space) , developmental psychology , social psychology , sociology , communication , mathematics , geometry , anthropology
Family communication does not occur randomly, but it patterns based on a particular scheme through two communication behavior: conversation and conformity orientations. The purpose of this study is to analyze communication pattern and family typology of the senior high schools’ students (adolescents) in Bogor. The research was conducted by survey at six senior high schools in Bogor. Total of respondents were 372 students, consisting of 206 females and 166 males ranging aged between 15-18 years old. The result are 50.5% with high category of the orientation conversation and 49.5% in low category. In conformity orientation, most of the teenagers (73.7%) have been as high categories and 26.3% in low categories. The study has also organized in four types of families: 46.2% of consensual (high both in conversation and comformity level), 4.3% of pluralist (high in conversation but low in conformity level), 27.4% of protective (low in conversation but high in comformity level) and 22.0% of non-interventionist (laissez faire) (low in conversational and conformity level). Based on gender, females have often more conversations with family with a higher conformity than males.