Fathering In Relation With Father’s Educational Level And Occupation In Semarang-Central Java: Indigenous Psychological Approach

Abstract

Father as the breadwinner of the family must have roles on nurturing the children. The way of father’s nurturing, or so-called fathering, may differ, depends on several presences of social context. The aim of this study is to describe fathering in relation with father’s educational level and occupation. A total of 1424 undergraduate students living in Semarang (male = 444; female = 980) completed an open-ended questionnaire developed by Kim (2010) that asks how their father nurture them. The data was analyzed using indigenous psychological approach of analyzing the content of open-ended responses, categorization of the responses, and cross-tabulating with background information. The results indicate that fathering has no relation with father’s educational level, but has relation with father’s occupation. Implication of the results will be discussed. Key word: fathering, nurturing, parent-child relationship