2 others, way of expressing emotion, and way of life. It is very necessary for parents to observe
if their parenting style is suitable for their children or not by keeping good communication with their children, because it will determine the childrenadoles
cent’s personality
development in the future. Keyword: adolescent, personality development, parenting style, Behaviourist approach, The
Casual Vacancy novel
1. INTRODUCTION
The Casual Vacancy
is a great novel about small town, Pagford. It is written by J.K Rowling and published in 2012. The author uses 500 pages to describe this town’s
inhabitants in some families with their own problems. By using so many point of view,
The Casual Vacancy
shows that all the characters are only human, there always be a good side and bad side in them. It mainly tells about the problem between rich with poor,
teenagers with parents, wiveswith husbands and teachers with students. Then the researcher chooses to focus on the problem between the adolescent with their parents to
analyze the parenting style and its influence on adolescent’s personality.
This is J.K Rowling’s first adult novel which is so much different from her
fantasy novel
Harry Potter
. Unlike
Harry Potter
, the readers will find drugs, teen sex, prostitution, rape, suicide, and beating etc in this novel. This is definitely not a book for
children, but it has so great moral value, that care, love and affection between us are most important than anything in this world.
There are some other researchers who also analyze
The Casual Vacancy
novel. The first researcher focuses on social condion in England at that time Impian, 2013 .
That study shows that there are still exclusivism and discrimination in England. The second researcher focuses on the struggle of Colin Wall, Simon Price, and Miles Mollison
to fight the empty seat on the parish council Fitri, 2016 They use their creativities to manage their strategies. Colin Wall and Simon Price failed to get their goal, while, Miles
Mollison success to get his goal.The third researcher focuses on the reality of the novel Leine, 2013 .
The Casual Vacancy
novel is obvious the reality of typical English village, according to Rowling as stated by Parker:
“this is a story of class warfare set amid semi- rural poverty,
herroin
addiction, an d teen perplexity and sexuality” Parker:2012 .
The last researchers are Oh MA, Park C, Lee YJ, Hong M, Han JH, Oh SH, Park JH, Bahn GH. Their first research focuses on Su
khvinder’s behavior, they assessed patterns of attachment, empathy and mentalization, and found corrective ways for
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problematic behaviors. Their second research focuses on the interaction between adoptees and that the adoptive parents must go through their own gestational period. The adoptees
need the establishment of the relationship with their adoptive and birth parents, respectively.
In this research, the researcher focuses on the characteristics of parenting style in the novel and then decide what kind of parenting style they used. Then the researcher
analyzes the influences of the parenting style in adolescent’s personality development.
This research is analyzed by using behaviorist approach according to J. B. Watson theory. The founder of behaviorism is J. B. Watson 1878-1958. Watson was dissatisfied
with the field of psychology because it strove to be a science yet was filled with introspective theorizing rather than experimental data Helm and Turner, 1981:73.The
behaviorist perspective is a theory of psychology that states that human behaviors are learned, not innate. The behaviorist approach asserts that human beings have no free will
and that all actions, characteristics and personality traits are influenced by other factors such as by a persons environment and the culture , acquired through learning Processes
acquired through modeling imitating And last conditioned stimulus response.
2. RESEARCH METHOD
