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The Relationship Between Self-Confidence and Social Interaction

in Adolescents from Divorced Families in Manado City

Zefanya Jennifer Lasut, Ratriana Yuliastuti Endang Kusumiati

Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, Salatiga, Indonesia

Email: 802020074@student.uksw.edu, ratriana.kusumiati@uksw.edu

Correspondence: 802020074@student.uksw.edu

KEYWORDS

ABSTRACT

Self-Confidence; Social

Interaction; Adolescent;

Broken Home

A broken home is a family condition that experiences a split due to a

problem that results in quarrels about divorce. A broken home greatly

impacts the process of child development in social interaction. Children,

especially in adolescence, are an important segment of life in the individual

development cycle and require interaction with others in the process of

self-discovery, so self-confidence is needed. This study aims to determine

the relationship between self-confidence and social interaction in

adolescents from divorced families. Participants in this study were 77

adolescents from divorced families in Manado City with an age range of 13–

18 years. The sampling technique used in this study was purposive

sampling. Data were collected using the self-confidence scale compiled by

Lauster (2012) and the social interaction scale developed by Winslow et

al.. The results of this study showed a significant positive relationship

between self-confidence and social interaction, with a correlation of r =

0.477 and a significance of 0.000 (p<0.05). This means that the higher the

self-confidence, the higher the social interaction.

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1. Introduction

Broken home is an English word and translates into Indonesian i.e. family is not whole. In

addition, the meaning of broken home indicates a family that is not intact, does not get along well and

there are frequent quarrels (Ardilla & Cholid, 2021). The meaning of broken home can also be

referred to as the state of a family that experiences a split due to a problem that results in quarrels to

separation or divorce (Khoiroh et al., 2022). Family is the most important place for children's growth

and development from birth to adulthood, but in broken families homes tend to be disharmonious

and uncomfortable situations arise in a family. One of the criteria for broken home is parents who

divorce so that children experience a lack of good moral education and affection (Paramitha et al.,

2019).

Broken home greatly impacts the process of child development in social interaction. The impact

of a broken home will generally make children feel sad and lose motivation or encouragement.

According to Erwiyani & Puspitarini (2022) children who experience broken homes have changes in

attitudes such as excessive fear, being unwilling to interact with others, closing themselves from the

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environment, being emotional, sensitive, high temperament, and unstable. There are several impacts

of broken homes on children: (Khoiroh et al., 2022) (1) experiencing ongoing sadness, (2) blaming

themselves as the cause of separation, (3) becoming more possessive, (4) difficulty trusting others,

(5) loss of affection, (6) lack of self-identity, and (6) trauma to establish relationships with others.

In recent years, the divorce rate in the family has increased. Based on the 2023 Statistics

Indonesia report, divorce cases in Indonesia reached 516,334 cases in 2022. The main causes of

divorce in 2022 are disputes and quarrels. The number was 284,169 cases or equivalent to 63.41%

of the total factors causing divorce cases in the country. Other divorce cases are motivated by

economic reasons, one party leaves, domestic violence, to polygamy (Annur, 2023). Based on data

from the Central Bureau of Statistics of North Sulawesi Province, Manado City is one of the cities with

the highest number of divorce cases in 2022 with 346 divorce cases. The results of these data prove

that not a few children are victims of broken homes in Indonesia due to the breakdown of family

structures that have an impact on children's social interactions, especially in adolescence.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), adolescents are someone who is in the age

range of 10-19 years. In adolescence, group adjustment still remains important for both boys and

girls. This period is an important segment of life in the individual development cycle, and is a

transitional period that can be directed to healthy adult development (Saputro, 2018). If adolescents

can carry out the phases of social development at their age well, then adolescents will not experience

difficulties in their social life and will bring happiness and success in completing developmental tasks

for the next phases. Conversely, when adolescents fail to perform their developmental tasks, it will

have negative consequences in their social life such as unhappiness in the adolescent concerned to

cause rejection of society, and difficulties in the next phase of development (Saputro, 2018).

Adolescents need interaction with others in the process of self-discovery, namely peers, school,

parents, and the community (Sholiha & Aulia, 2020). Interaction is an action carried out by a person as

a stimulus for the actions of other individuals who become their partners (Prasanti & Indriani, 2017).

According to Zahara (2019), social interaction is a dynamic social relationship regarding relationships

between a person and others, between groups, and between a person and people with groups. Good

social interaction is characterized by good cooperation and tolerance that has a positive impact on

individuals in establishing close relationships with others, avoiding opposition and competition, is

more confident, and respecting others (Zuhara, 2020). Based on this opinion, it can be concluded that

social interaction is behavior that will form relationships in the form of repairing, changing, or

influencing other individuals or groups. The role of social interaction is needed for adolescents

because by interacting socially, the teenager will be sensitive to the surrounding environment where

he lives and if adolescents cannot interact properly it can cause problems that can also interfere with

their association, not care about friends so that they are shunned by their friends, this is one example

of a problem due to the absence of good social interaction (Arianti et al., 2019).

Regarding social interaction, there is one factor that influences self-confidence. This is in line

with the results of Zahara's research (2018) showing that the factor of adolescent inability to hold

social interactions is low self-confidence. As stated by Vallet in Zahara (2019) a person will be able

and dare to show his existence if he has good self-confidence. This self-confidence can affect social

functioning in adolescents, especially adolescents from divorced families. One of the effects of a lack

of self-confidence in broken-home teens is the feeling that there is no one to appreciate, no one to

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trust, and no one to look up to. This tendency shapes children into people who are ignorant of others,

like to seek attention, are rude, and selfish, and do not listen to other people's advice (Mistiani, 2020)

Researchers have conducted preliminary interviews with two respondents aged 15 years and

17 years who are broken-home teenagers in the form of divorced parents from the city of Manado.

Based on the results of the interviews, it showed that the respondents still felt embarrassed and

awkward with others who knew their family living conditions and sometimes aroused envy when

comparing themselves with friends with family conditions that were not divorced. On the other hand,

respondents can still adjust to interacting because they are still supported by the closest people who

understand them to increase their self-confidence so that they continue to build relationships or

interact with people around them.

Research on the relationship between self-confidence and social interaction has been carried

out by several previous researchers, including Zahara's research (2018) on students at Medan Main

Potential University that there is a significant positive relationship between self-confidence and social

interaction which means that self-confidence has an influence on social interaction, meaning that the

higher self-confidence, the higher the social interaction, Or vice versa if self-confidence is low, it will

result in low social interaction. Then another study by Muniroh et al. (2018) on Class X Students of

Private Vocational Schools Panca Bhakti Kubu Raya shows that there is a significant positive influence

on self-confidence in social interaction where if you want to achieve good social interaction skills,

then person or individual must have high self-confidence in order to facilitate interaction with other

individuals. In contrast to Andriaty's research, et al (2018) showed that there is no relationship

between self-confidence and communication skills, where communication is part of social interaction.

Based on previous studies, it can be concluded that self-confidence greatly affects social

interaction. The link between social interaction and self-confidence in broken-home adolescents is

evident in everyday life. Based on the description above, the researcher wants to further examine the

relationship between self-confidence and social interaction using a theory that is different from

several previous studies, especially focusing on broken-home adolescents.

2. Materials and Methods

The type of research used in this study is quantitative research because researchers find out

the relationship between one variable and another variable in the form of a correlation coefficient. The

population determined by the researchers was individuals adolescents from divorced families in the

city of Manado. Based on the results of divorce case data in the city of Manado, there are around 346

children broken home due to parental divorce. The Slovin formula is used to determine the sample size

taken based on the population. The number of samples in this study amounted to 77 addpeople,

sampling using purposive sampling due to certain considerations by the desired criteria to be able to

determine the number of samples to be studied. The sample criteria in this study are as follows:

Individuals aged 13 to 18 years, referring to Hurlock's theory; they come from a divorced family;

Originally from Manado City. The data collection method in this study used a questionnaire with a

Likert scale regarding self-confidence and social interaction, by distributing questionnaires through

social media using Google Forms. Data analysis techniques are carried out to prove the formulation of

the problem and test the hypothesis as formulated based on the research objectives. Data analysis uses

descriptive analysis, assumption testing, and hypothesis testing.

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3. Results and Discussions

Research Results

1. Descriptive Analysis,

Table 1 Score Confidence and Social Interaction

Descriptive Statistics

Minimum

Maximum

Mean

Std. Deviation

Confidence

79.13

4.115

Social Interaction

81.08

5.298

Valid N (listwise)

Based on the results of the analysis, it can be seen that the minimum value of the score obtained

by respondents for the self-confidence variable is 73 and the maximum value is 89 with an average

score of 79.13. The minimum score obtained by respondents for social interaction variables is 56 and

the maximum value is 86 with an average score of 81.08.

Table 2 Self-Confidence score categorization

Confidence

Frequency

Percent

Valid

Percent

Cumulative

Percent

Valid

High

29.9

429.9

Medium

70.1

100.0

Total

100.0

Based on the results of the analysis, it can be seen that as many as 23 respondents or 29.9% of

respondents have high self-confidence and as many as 54 respondents or 70.1% of respondents have

moderate confidence.

Table 3 Social Interaction score categorization

Social Interaction

Frequency

Percent

Valid

Percent

Cumulative

Percent

Valid

High

83.1

Medium

11.7

94.8

Low

3.9

98,7

Very Low

1.3

100.0

Total

100.0

Based on the results of the analysis, it can be seen that as many as 64 respondents or 83.1% of

respondents have high social interaction, as many as 9 respondents or 11.7% of respondents have

moderate social interaction, as many as 3 respondents or 3.9% of respondents have low social

interaction, and as many as 1 respondent or 1.3% of respondents have very low social interaction.

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2. Assumption Test Results

a. Normality Test,

The author then conducted a data normality test to determine the condition of data

distribution in this study. The following is a table of the results of the Kolmogrov Smirnov Test

that has been carried out.

Table 4 results of the Kolmogrov Smirnov Test

One-Sample Kolmogrov-Smirnov Test

Normal Parameters

a.b

Mean

113.19

93.26

Std. Deviation

6.519

6.191

Absolute

.155

.262

Positive

.088

.196

Negatve

-.155

-.262

Test Statistic

.155

.262

Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed)

.000°

a. Test Distribution is Normal.

b. Calculated from data.

c. Lilliefors 0

Based on the normality test using the one sample Kolmogrov Smirnov test, it is known that

the significance value of Self-Confidence is 0.000 (p < 0.05) which means that the distribution of

Self-Confidence (KD) data in this study does not meet the assumption of normality or is

abnormally distributed. Then for the distribution of Social Interaction (IS) data, it is known to

have a significance score of 0.000 (p < 0.05) which means that the distribution of Social

Interaction (IS) data in this study does not meet the assumption of normality or is abnormally

distributed. Because the two variables in this study were not normally distributed, a

nonparametric spearman test was carried out.

b. Linearity Test

Table 5 Linearity Test Results

ANOVA Table

Sum of

Squares

Mean

Square

Sig.

Social interaction

Self-confidence

Between

Groups

(Combined)

455.900

35.076

1.317

.227

Linearity

74.100

2.783

.100

Deviation

Linearity

381.890

31.824

1.195

.306

Within Groups

1677.542

26.628

Total

2133.532

Based on the results of the analysis, it can be seen that the significance value (Sig.) in

deviation from linearity is 0.306 and this value is greater than 0.050 (0.306 > 0.050), so it can be

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concluded that there is a linear relationship between self-confidence and social interaction in this

study.

3. Hypothesis Test Results

A correlation test is performed to find out whether the hypothesis proposed by the author

is accepted or rejected. The hypothesis proposed in this study is that there is a positive

relationship between Self-Confidence and Social Interaction in adolescent victims of parental

divorce in Manado City. To determine whether there is a relationship, the author conducted a

correlation test with the Spearman correlation technique because the data is not normally

distributed. The following is a table of Spearman correlation test results.

Table 6 Spearman Correlation Test Results

Correlation

Confidence

Social

Interaction

Spearman’s rho

Confidence

Coefficient

Correlation

1.000

.477

Sig. (2-tailed)

.000

Social

Interaction

Coefficient

Correlation

.477

1.000

Sig. (2-tailed)

.000

. Correlations is Significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)

Based on the results of the analysis, it can be seen that the correlation coefficient value is 0.477

and this correlation value is positive so that it can be concluded that if self-confidence increases, social

interaction will also increase. The significance value (Sig.) is 0.000 where this value is smaller than

0.050 (0.000 < 0.050), so it can be concluded that the confidence variable has a significant relationship

with the Social Interaction variable. These results show that the hypothesis of this study is accepted.

Discussion

Based on the results of data analysis, it can be concluded that the hypothesis of this study which

reads that there is a positive relationship between Self-Confidence (KD) and Social Interaction (IS) is

accepted. This can be seen from the results of the Spearman correlation test which produces a score

of r = 0.477 with sig = 0.000 (p < 0.05). The results of this study support the results of previous studies,

including research conducted by Zahara (2018) which also concluded that there is a significant

positive relationship between Self-Confidence and Social Interaction.

From the results of the study, it can be seen that the higher the self-confidence, the social

interaction in adolescents from divorced parents will also be high. These results are in line with the

statement presented by Muniroh, et al (2018) that if you want to achieve good social interaction skills,

then a person or individual must have high self-confidence in order to make it easier to interact with

other individuals. High self-confidence affects social interaction. While low self-confidence tends to

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shape individuals into people who are ignorant of others, like to seek attention, rude, selfish, and do

not listen to other people's advice (Mistiani, 2020). When someone has an attitude or feels confident

in their abilities, the individual concerned will not be too anxious in every action so that they can do

things they like be responsible for all actions done, and have good interactions with others (Lauster,

2012).

Not a few teenagers who experience broken homes have low self-confidence so their social lives

are not good (Adli & Wahidin, 2023). This statement is supported by the results of interviews conducted

by the author with several sources of adolescents who experienced divorce from parents from

Manado City. Based on interviews conducted on some of these sources, admitted that there was still

a shame, awkwardness with the living conditions of his family that were known by others, and a sense

of comparison with the family of his friends but his confidence was able to control and interact with

others like nothing happened. The results of the interview showed that the characteristics of self-

confidence affect social interaction. In other words, these traits show high enough self-confidence.

Meanwhile, the results of the descriptive analysis found that broken home adolescents with

parental divorce cases in Manado City who were respondents in this study, it was known that the

average respondent had a relatively high Social Interaction of 83.1%. Meanwhile, 11.7% of

participants fell into the moderate Social Interaction category. While 1.3% of participants fall into the

category of very low Social Interaction. Furthermore, in the variable Self-Confidence of broken home

adolescents with divorce cases of parents in Manado City, it is known that the average participant has

moderate self-confidence, which is 70.1% and the remaining 29.9% is in the high category. The data

showed that the average participant had moderate self-confidence and high social interaction. Social

interaction in broken home adolescents with parental divorce cases in Manado City by several factors,

namely the urge to imitate others (imitation), the influence of oneself or others (suggestion),

following the ideal environment (identification), and sympathy (Gerungan, 2004). In line with the

results of interviews conducted by the author broken-home teenagers with parental divorce cases in

Manado City show the influence of bad suggestions and negative sympathy because they feel envious

and compare their family conditions.

Lauster (2012) argues that Self-Confidence is structured by several aspects, including self-

ability confidence, optimism, objectivity, responsibility, rationale, and realism. The influence of bad

suggestions and negative sympathy on broken-home adolescents with the case of parental divorce in

Manado City shows weak self-confidence and optimism. This is what affects social interaction in

broken-home adolescents with parental divorce cases in Manado City. From the results of the

research conducted, the author proposes to conduct further research on social interaction by

involving factors other than self-confidence. With the research study, the author hopes that social

interaction can be applied well in everyday life. In addition, the author also hopes that broken-home

teenagers with parental divorce cases will continue to increase their self-confidence in so that they

can increase good social interaction.

4. Conclusion

Based on the results of research conducted by the author, it can be concluded that there is a

significant positive relationship between Self-Confidence and Social Interaction in adolescents from

divorced families and in Manado City. The higher the self-confidence, the social interaction in

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adolescents from divorced parents will also be high. A person's self-confidence affects social

interaction skills. In this study, self-confidence was classified in the medium category, while social

interaction was classified as high.

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