Studi Identifikasi Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Remaja Melakukan Pernikahan Dini di Kecamatan Pantai Labu Kabupaten Deli Serdang

Abstract

Adolescence is a period of life filled with dinamics. In this period adolescents have a high risk of mischief, perversion both as victims or perpetrators of inappropriate actions. While early marriage is a marriage conducted by a couple or one of the couple who are still categorized as teenagers under the age of 19 years. Many negative impacts arising from early marriage are biological, psychologycal and social impact. This study aims to discusses the biggest factors that influence early marriage for adolescents in Pantai Labu, Deli Serdang District. Factors that influence early marriage was environmental factors, parental factors, promiscuity factors, mass media factors, and internal factors (knowledge). This research used a quantitative method of survey research type. The population of this study was female teenagers who had married in the last three years were 201 teenagers, using a purposive sampling technique, the samples in this study were 60 teenagers. The measuring instrument used was the scale of early marriage consisting of 45 items (a = 0.702). From the analysis of the factors obtained facts that factors who had contribute to promiscuity by 23 percent, 21 percent for parents, internal factors for self (knowledge) 20 percent, 19 percent for environmental factors and mass media for 17 percent. This means that the most dominant factor is the promiscuity factor.