Emotional Autonomy of Street Adolescence

Abstract

Street adolescences grow up in an unsafe environment, making them vulnerable to growing up with risky behaviours. However, if street adolescences have good emotional autonomy, they can control their emotions and behaviours. Good emotional autonomy is important to the adolescence for their next stage of development. The impact of low emotion autonomy can cause a bad emotional attitude, aggression, and inability to adapt to the new environment. This research aims to know the picture of emotional autonomy of street adolescences in Sidoarjo-East Java. This study used a survey method using subjects collected by purposive random sampling techniques with 60 subjects from 145 out of total street children in Sidoarjo. The data was collected using the scale of emotional autonomy, and the descriptive analysis was performed using Statistic Programs. The results showed that the emotional autonomy of street teenagers was in the moderate category. Age and family conditions are some of the factors that are quite influential to the emotional autonomy of street adolescences, but gender does not affect the level of emotional autonomy in street teenagers.