The effect of family function on the self-acceptance of the broken home adolescent

Broken-home adolescents tend to have a low level of self acceptance, then to achieve a high self-acceptance process, individuals need reinforcement from people in their surrounding environment, one of which is the family. An optimally functioning family will help broken-home teens reach a high level of self acceptance for their family background that is different from their friends in general. This study aimed to determine the effect of family functioning on self-acceptance in broken-home adolescents. The research design uses correlational quantitative. The data collection method used the non-probability sampling purposive sampling technique. The research subjects were 116 adolescents, with a frequency of 84 women and 32 men, female subjects. The age range of respondents is 17–21 years old. In addition, the respondent’s family background is a broken home with the provision of living with a nuclear family or a large family with a frequency of 91 subjects living with their nuclear family and 25 subjects living with extended family. The measuring instrument used is the Berger scale (Self-Acceptance Questionnaire) and The General Functioning 12-item subscale (GF12) of The McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) scale. Test data ana�lysis using simple linear regression which shows the influence of family functioning on self�acceptance of broken-home adolescents (b = 0.613; p<0.001), which means that the more the family functions optimally, the higher the level of self-acceptance of broken-home adolescents. Other results show that gender has an effect on the level of self-acceptance of broken home adolescents p = 0.011 (p < 0.005) with male (M = 111.750; SD = 22.02) and female (M = 100.952; SD = 19.524) scores. Different test based on living with a nuclear family or extended family does not affect the self acceptance of broken-home adolescents. This means that only gender and family functioning in general influence the self acceptance of broken�home adolescents.