The Correlation Between Parenting Styles, Social Maturity, and Peer Interaction in Adolescents

Abstract

This study was conducted to test and understand the influence of parenting styles mediated by adolescent social maturity on adolescent peer interaction. The study was conducted on 420 high school students in Magelang, Indonesia. The sampling technique used in the study was random sampling. This quantitative study used three measurements, namely the parenting style scale (a modification of the parenting scale developed by Gafoor & Kurukkan (2014)), the social maturity scale, and the adolescent social interaction scale (a modification of the scale developed by Kurniawati (2019)). The SEM-PLS test was performed to determine the influence between the three variables. The results of data analysis show that parenting styles independently influence social maturity (t=18.506; p<0.05) and adolescent peer interaction (t=8.108; p=<0.05), adolescent social maturity influences peer interaction (t=4.473; p=<0.05), and that parenting styles mediated by adolescent social maturity also have a positive effect on peer interaction (t=4.198; p<0.05).

Keywords

• adolescents
• parenting styles
• peer interaction
• social maturity