| Summary: | Background: Nowadays, anxiety in adolescents continues to increase around 25%
and will continue to grow because the symptoms are not recognized. Anxiety is
influenced by biological, psychoanalytic, psychosocial, and environmental factors. Of
environmental factors, the factor that increases the anxiety is parenting consisting of
authoritative, permissive, and democratic styles. Anxiety in adolescents if untreated
will lead to poor emotional development, academic impairment, social phobia, and
low self esteem. Anxiety in adolescents is influenced by gender and psychosocial
stressors.
Objectives: To determine the relationship of parenting to anxiety in adolescents
among students of SMPN in Banjarsari Sub-District, Ciamis and to determine the
relationship of psychosocial stressors and gender to anxiety in adolescents among
students of SMPN in Banjarsari Sub-District
Methods: This was an observational study with a quantitative method using crosssectional
design study, supported by a qualitative method using interview. Study
sample was 220 people chosen with cluster sampling at four public junior high
schools (SMPN) in Banjarsari Sub-District, Ciamis. Instruments used were the
Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ) to measure parenting, Lifestyle Assessment
Inventory to measure psychosocial stressors and Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale
(TMAS) to measure anxiety. Bivariabel analysis used one way Analysis of Variance
(ANOVA) and correlation test and multivariable analysis used linear regression.
Results: Analysis of correlation and regression tests showed a significant relationship
between anxiety in adolescents and mother's authoritarian parenting pattern (p <0.05).
Bivariabel analysis was significant relationship between gender and anxiety in which
the score of adolescent girls was higher than that of adolescent boys. Meanwhile,
psychosocial stressors in young adolescents with anxiety there is no significant
relationship. The qualitative result through interview that adolescents were more
close to mother than father, between father and adolescents tended less of
communication because father held the power in making decision, while adolescents
did not give any chance to convey their thought or ideas
Conclusion: Anxiety in adolescents among students of SMPN in Banjarsari Sub-
District had a relationship with mother�s authoritarian parenting pattern and gender of
adolescents.
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