The Self-Concept of Adolescents in Balai Gadang Kelurahan Koto Tangah District, Padang City

Abstract

This research is motivated by the phenomenon of the existance of adolescents having
probles with cognitive self-concept and affective self-concept. The purpose of this study
was to describe: 1) The development profile of adolescent cognitive self-concept, 2) The
development profile of adolescent affective self-concept. This research is a quantitative
descriptive. The population in this study was 82 adolescents in the Balai Gadang Village,
Koto Tangah Padang District. The sampling technique was total sampling. The reaserch
instrument was a questionnaire and the data were processed using a percentage formula.
The result of this study reveal that in general the self-concept of adolescents in the Balai
Gadang Village, Koto Tangah Padang District, is in the fairly good category. Judging
from each indicator: 1) Adolescent cognitive self-concept is in a fairly good category,
including aspects of knowledge and aspects of an image as self-image. 2) Adolescent
affective self-concept is in a fairly good category, including adolescent affective selfconcept from the aspect of self-acceptance and self-esteem aspects. It can be
recommended to parents to pay more attention to their children so that they can help
children in shaping a more posititive self-concept both in terms of cognitive and
affective, as well as providing information to parents in developing adolescent cognitive
and affective self-concepts