Social Support of Toba-Bataknese Mothers in Children's Education

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10.2991/icosop-16.2017.69How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social support; Toba-Bataknese mothers; children's education

Abstract

Toba-Bataknese women known as hard workers, have a major contribution towards their children's education. As Toba-Bataknese people who have three goals of life as cultural mission which are hagabeon (blessed by heredity), hamoraon (wealth), and hasangapon (honor), they believed education is the only way to reach "the glory of life". Their child who has a good education is the most precious treasure (anakkokin do hamoraon di ahu). This study try to reveal the social support of Toba-Bataknese mothers in order to make sure their children to have the good education. Toba-Bataknese mothers (N=136) in Medan filled out questionnaire with open-ended questions developed from social support theory by Sarafino. There are four types social support: emotional/esteem support, tangible/instrumental support, informational support, and companionship support. This study used the quantitative method, all the responses were categorized and then analyzed by using croos tabulation statistical methods. The result showed that most of Toba-Bataknese mothers were having difficulty in providing school's funding, especially in low income family with more than one child. The most social support received is tangible/instrumental support from the Toba-Bataknese mother's clan (female line). This finding is interesting knowing the Toba-Bataknese has patrilineal kinship system that so dominant that can be traced through the male line. The informational support received in form of some advices, and the companionship support received in form of helping them to taking care of their children. This study didn't showed any of emotional/esteem support received by Toba-Bataknese mothers.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rahma Fauzia
AU  - Meutia Nauly
AU  - Ridhoi Meilona Purba
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Social Support of Toba-Bataknese Mothers in Children's Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social and Political Development (ICOSOP 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 509
EP  - 512
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icosop-16.2017.69
DO  - 10.2991/icosop-16.2017.69
ID  - Fauzia2016/11
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