ADOLESCENT’S CONSTRUCTION OF PARENTAL VERBAL AGGRESSION: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON RURAL FAMILIES COMMUNICATION IN INDONESIA

• Main Authors: Berlianti D., Hubeis A.V., Hastuti D., Sarwoprasodjo S., Krisnatuti D.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences 2021-07-01
• Series: Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences
• Subjects: verbal aggression; family communication; rural family; rural adolescents; indonesia

This article presented in-depth interviews on two focus group discussions about parental verbal aggression on 15 male and 15 female high school students in rural families in Indonesia. Parental verbal aggression is the most common and frequent aggression that happened to children in Indonesia, however, study about parental verbal aggression categories, frequency, painfulness degree, responses, and solutions from the adolescents perspective have rarely been done yet. Research shows that from nine categories of verbal aggression such as (a) put downs and shaming, (b) rejection, (c) blaming, (d) fault exaggerating, (e) threat, (f) invoking harm, (g) regret, (h) unfair comparison, (i) negative prediction, the most frequent verbal aggression to male adolescent was put downs and shaming. Parents usually said to their male adolescent words like “useless kid,” “ungrateful child,” “(acting) without considerations,” “you are good for nothing” to make their children feel shame and shallow. The most frequent verbal aggression on female adolescent was, “if you’re not going to help, just go!” and “you’re good for nothing.”