Julia Irawan Putri, 2211414047 (2020) PARENTAL NARCISSISM AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ADOLESCENT CHARACTER’S INFERIORITY IN JOHN GREEN’S NOVEL PAPER TOWNS. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

This study discusses how parental narcissism and its impact on the adolescent character‘s inferiority which reflected by the work itself. This study aims at describing the results of parental neglect as the style of parenting in John Green‘s novel Paper Towns.This study uses the qualitative analysis that focuses on the word or explanatory reasoning. The data were collected by reading, identifying, interpreting and inventorying by using the parenting styles theory proposed by Baumrind and Adler‘s personality theory: Individual Psychology to identify the validity of influence and evidence resulted by parental overprotectiveness. The result of this study were the classification of the affected aspects such as; physical, educational, and emotional based on the type of parenting style found in the novel. It results the description of parental overprotectiveness in the novel as the parenting style that is inversely proportional. Then, last finding is the connection between the affected aspects caused by parental overprotectiveness with the development of inferiority within the child in tackling and coping with the continuity of his developed inferiority. Eventually, the development of child‘s inferiority resulted in several behaviors as the impact of parental overprotectiveness. To sum up, the result of this study proves that the child of neglected parents is more likely to have problems which varied from behavioral problem, emotional problem, social problem, mental problem, physical problem and skill developmental problem.

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