The Correlation Between the Perception of Parental Discipline Towards Students Independence at Muhammadiyah University Of Education Sorong

This research tried to identify the correlation between gender-oriented parenting towards students independence at Muhammadiyah University of Education-Sorong. In collecting the data this research used psychological scale. The scale of gender-oriented parenting was designed related to five aspects, such as; authority and decision-making process, division of parenting duties, nurturing technical treatment, students’ score, and also parents’ hope about their children’s future. According to Douvan, the scale of gender-oriented parenting was made based on the three aspects, such as the independency in emotions, behavior and values. This research was conducted at Muhammadiyah University of Education-Sorong’s students. So, the higher gender-oriented parenting would show the higher independency of the female students and also the lower gender-oriented parenting could present the lower independency of the female students. The gender-oriented parenting contributed 17,5% towards students’ independency at Muhammadiyah University of Education-Sorong. So, there was 82,5% from other factors that influence students’ independency such as education, intelligence, personality, environment, friendship and culture. The gender-oriented parenting with the empirical mean = 146 was being at the high level. It was similar with the students’ independency that had empirical mean = 96,943.