Parenting Style, Self-Control and Peer Influence toward Students’ Misbehavior

Abstract

Misbehavior within the classroom disorders students' devotion and have a adverse impact in the teaching learning process. In the formation effective learning environment, the behaviors performed by each stakeholders such as parents, peers and ourselves in the classroom play significant roles for a positive teaching-learning atmosphere. This study aims to determine the relationships between parenting style, self-control and peer influence and student misbehaviors; and secondly, aimed to identify parenting style, self-control and peer influence are predictors of student misbehaviors. The data were gathered from 250 students at different schools through survey consists of five parts, part A is on demographic information of students, part B is on student misbehaviors, part C is the styles of parenting, part D is the self-control of students and part E is peer influence. The reliability of the questionnaire was high with value of 0.91.The data obtained are analyzed using the software of Statistical Package For Social Science version 26.0. The overall result of analysis from correlation Pearson showed that peer influence shows a significant relationship towards student misbehaviors than parenting style and self-control. Regression analysis shows that parenting styles, selfcontrol, peer influence and gender are predictors of students' misbehaviors. For further research proposed suggest to collect more data from more various samples including different social contexts should be considered.