The study aimed at investigating the association between maternal and paternal parenting styles and psychological well-being among Indonesian adolescents. The Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ), General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12), and the Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale, were administered to 500 adolescents. We were unable to replicate the three-factor solution of the PAQ using confirmatory factor analysis. The permissive subscale demonstrated poor psychometric properties; it was therefore not included in any further analysis. Mothers were perceived to be more authoritative than fathers; on the other hand, fathers were perceived to be more authoritarian than mothers. Both maternal and paternal authoritative parenting styles were positively associated with outcomes. Authoritarian parenting was not associated with any outcome. Scores computed to represent perceived differences between maternal and paternal use of various parenting styles were associated with reported GHQ-12 and life satisfaction scores. Our results confirm Western findings on the positive effects of authoritative parenting, but do not replicate the negative associations of authoritarian parenting. Future studies that examine different parenting styles at the construct level are needed to elucidate the association between parenting styles and adolescent psychological functioning in the Indonesian and other similar contexts.

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Yayasan Wahana Inclusive Indonesia (YWII) is an institution engaged in providing services for children with special needs, people with disability, and inclusive society. YWII provides services that include counseling, development of individual learning programs (PPIs), support services for children with special needs, and training for educators, schools, parents, and communities. Educational and training activities are conducted by helping children with special needs to learn a few things they need most in their daily lives. Based on the children’s needs, the Master’s Program of Child and Adolescent Psychology Professionals, Faculty of Psychology, Atma Jaya Catholic University, designed training-based interventions to improve the knowledge of students, teachers, and parents about sexual behaviors. Prior to the intervention, the researcher conducted an assessment to determine the causes of "inapproriate" sexual behavior problems that occurred in the YWII environment. The data was collected through instruments such as interview, observation, and FGD. The collected data was then analyzed using the concepts of problem tree and destination tree. Based on the assessment results, it can be concluded that one of the challenges faced by YWII is related to the provision of sexual education to students or children. Adolescents with special needs have not yet had an awareness of their development from children to adolescents that is followed by sexual change or development and how they should respond to the changes. As a result, they are often considered to exhibit behaviors considered rude and vulnerable to sexual harassment. Training-based interventions were provided to parents and teachers at YWII to give them guidance and assistance to handle children with special needs on sexual education

Panti Sosial Asuhan Anak (PSAA) Putra Utama 3 and 4 are units of DKI Jakarta Social Service that provide alternative foster care for adolescents. As substitute for parents, PSAA is responsible for fulfilling the needs of the foster kids. Unfortunately, the service provided is inadequate, both from the quantity and the quality of the caregivers. That is, even though the kids’ physical needs are met, their psychological needs are often neglected. As a result, problems emerge, including the feeling of apprehension about their future after leaving the orphanage, which were worsened by their poor social and academic ability. These problems seem to stem from low level of self-efficacy, namely one’s confidence in the ability in organizing and carrying out actions needed to attain certain result, which in this case is to be able to survive outside the orphanage. As a means of intervention, a psychological development program was planned. To ensure the program effectiveness, a need analysis was carried out. The result showed that the skills needed by the kids include understanding oneself, positive attitude, understanding one’s learning style, time management, self-discipline, communication, teamwork, and goal-setting. Similar to adolescents in general, the kids’ relationship with their significant others greatly affect their emotion and motivation. Meanwhile, their idea about their future was not yet concrete or focused. Different approaches to the boys and girls were applied in executing the program, although generally, the use of video and game effectively was able to catch their attention. In order for the intervention to be thorough, the program was also provided to the caregivers.

Semua individu berhak untuk memperoleh kesempatan yang sama dalam berbagai aspek kehidupan. Namun,perolehan hak yang sama tidak selalu terjadi pada individu-individu yang mengalami disabilitas, termasuk individudengan disabilitas tuna rungu atau yang dikenal dengan sebutan “Teman Tuli”. Salah satu organisasi khusus yangdibentuk untuk mewadahi Teman Tuli muda dan anak-anak tuli di Indonesia adalah Gerkatin Kepemudaan (Gerakanuntuk Kesejahteraan Tuli Indonesia). Tujuan dibentuknya Gerkatin Kepemudaan ini adalah agar muda-mudi bisa lebihpercaya diri, mandiri, dan setara dengan orang dengar, serta memperkuat kapasitas anak muda tuli untuk menghasilkanpemimpin, baik untuk masyarakat tuli ataupun masyarakat Indonesia. Pada saat ini, Teman Tuli di Indonesiamenggunakan Bahasa Isyarat Indonesia (BISINDO) untuk berkomunikasi. Bahasa isyarat adalah bahasa yangmenggunakan gerakan tangan, kepala, tubuh dan sebagainya, terutama diciptakan oleh orang tuli dan untuk orang tuli(kadang-kadang untuk pendengar). Namun pada saat ini jumlah Teman Dengar yang dapat memahami BISINDOmasih sangat minim karena kurangnya sosialisasi BISINDO kepada masyarakat luas. Teman Tuli yang jumlahnyaterbilang tidak sedikit ini masih harus menghadapi stigma dari masyarakat luas, dan di saat yang sama juga mengalamikesulitan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari karena kurangnya fasilitas, sarana, dan prasarana yang mendukung. Tujuandilakukannya intervensi untuk mewujudkan masyarakat yang lebih inklusif terhadap Teman Tuli, meminilasir stigmaterhadap Teman Tuli oleh para Teman Dengar yang cenderung negatif, dan membuka aksesbilitas komunikasi denganTeman Tuli melalui Bahasa Isyarat Indonesia (BISINDO).