Hubungan Antara Pola Asuh Orang Tua Dengan Perilaku Agresif Remaja Kelas VIII Di SMP Mardi Wacana Palembang

Background: Parents have an important role to constitute the behavior of their children. Indirectly attitudes and behaviors of parents who are permissive and authoritarian to children can cause children to tend behave aggressively. Aggressive behavior by adolescent has increased, was indicated by so many participation of adolescents in riot actions, war, demonstrations, and all the acts of violence that can demage everything like material loss, social, and victims, so that a lot of mass media always have news about violence who have done by adolescents. Aim: This study aims to determine the relationship between parenting style and aggressive behavior of adolescent class VIII in SMP Mardi Wacana Palembang. Method: This study used quantitative research with Cross Sectional design. The sample consisted of 109 respondents with Total Sampling technique and used statistic Kendall Tau test. Result: Majority of respondents with authoritative parenting is 98 (89,9%) and aggressive behavior with active aggressive that is 58 (53,2%). Kendall Tau test results obtained there is a relationship between parenting style with aggressive behavior of adolescent with p-value = 0,044 and r = -0,191 which means very low correlation coefficient with a negative direction. Based on this research, researcher suggest so that parents to give and apply parenting style that consistent and assertive for reduce and overcome behavior problems of children