The purpose of this study is to examine the role of fathers involvement in parenting towards the development of self esteem in adolescents. This research used quantitative method with purposive sampling technique. The participants were 149 adolescents who live with the their fathers. This study used self esteem scale by Rosenberg and father involvement scale which was developed by researcher based on the theory of Goncy and Van Dullman. The data analysis result using regression test shows that the contribution of the role of the father involvement on adolescent's self esteem is 38%, while the other 62% was caused by other factors. This finding indicate that the greater role of father in parenting, the higher self esteem. This study hopefully can increase father’s awareness and brings new pattern of family parenting about their roles that not only in economic but also for the psychological effect, especially self esteem.

The purpose of this study was to compare career choice decisions between students majoring in Science and Social Sciences. This study used the comparative quantitative method. The subjects were 188 students, consists of 94 students on each major in Science and Social Science. The subjects were selected by purposive sampling, with the characteristics of class XII students majoring in science and social studies and aged 15-18 years. The data were analyzed using Mann-Whitney Nonparametric Test. The findings showed that there were no significant differences in career choice decisions between students majoring in Science and Social Sciences. There were 39 science and 53 social sciences students who have difficulties in deciding their careers.

According to the results of the Survey of Home Learning performed by the Directorate General of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and Culture regarding online lectures during the epidemic, most students believe that online lectures are ineffective. The goal of this study was to see if there was a difference in the grit of students from State Universities (PTN) and Private Higher Education (PTS) during Online Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic. This study's population consisted of PTN and PTS students. While the samples in this study were students of PTN and PTS in Jakarta. This survey included 62 students from public universities and 62 from private universities. Angela L Duckworth produced a grit scale questionnaire with 12 components, which was used to collect data. The two-group difference test was employed in the data analysis procedure to compare the grit of PTN and PTS students. In this study, there was a significant difference in grit between students at state universities (M = 39.0484, SD = 5.87974) and students at private colleges (M = 42.0806, SD = 7.82870), t = -2.439, p = 0.016. The mean grit of public college students is lower than that of private university students.