Loitering and Parenting Style

LOITERING FACTORS AND PARENTING RELATION AMONG ADOLESCENT SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE FOUR STATES Associate Prof. Dr. Azizi Hj. Yahaya Nalini A/P Madavan 15, Jalan Tembaga, Taman Sri Skudai, 81300 Skudai, Johor. ABSTRACT: The purpose of the study is to identify the dominant factors that contribute to loitering among school students and parenting relation of adolescents. Approximately 500 students from 18 schools from Johore, Malacca, Negeri Sembilan and Selangor were selected by using cluster of cluster in this study. The data were collected using questionnaire which was adopted from Parental Behaviour Inventory (PBI), Teenagers Personality Questionnaires (TPAS) and The Parental Aspect Questionnaires (PAAS). The alpha Cronbach for this instrument for loitering factors was 0.8596, parenting styles was 0.8879 and parenting roles was 0.8975. The findings indicated that there were significant correlations with family relation factors, self-regulation teenagers, religion education, parenting styles and parents as a rolemodel. However, there were no significant differences with friendship relation and environment. Family relation factor was the most dominant factor that determine the teenagers students. The findings also shows that democratic parenting styles and parents as a role-model were in high level. INTRODUCTION Loitering give us the clear picture of what is given on in the society today where importance of the problem is been highlighted in Malaysia now. Psychological and loitering between the youths are gaining lot of attention from the public. The nature of the problem is subjective and changes according to situation, surrounding and also time. A lot of reports are being published in papers, magazines and other firms of broadcasting to show the seriousness of this problems which youths are facing in Malaysia. Just hanging around doing nothing is one of the serious problem which are seen here. It has been one of the important topic which are discussed in