everything whether good or bad starts. Family also means the environment where the child grows. This is important, especially for the students at their teenage phase to
know such that phenomena, because they are searching an identity and it may give them a reference.
Finally, for the readers in general, after they read the novel, they will gain meaningful lessons and values from the psychological aspect, family influences, so
that they will be wiser. Especially for the parents, it may teach them that childhood is the essential period to shape a personality of someone.
E. Definition of Terms
In order to obtain better understanding and to avoid misinterpretation, the writer defines some important terms that are used in the study.
1. Dissociative Identity Disorder Karen Huffman, Mark Vernoy, and Judith Vernoy in their book Psychology
in Action explain that the person with dissociative identity disorder has two or more distinct personality system that becomes dominant at different times. Each
personality has unique memories, behaviors, and social relationship. The transition from one personality to another occurs suddenly and often associated with
psychological stress. Often the alternate personalities are very different from the original personality, and may be the other sex or a different race 506.
2. Parental influences Parents are regarded as the most influential figures in the personality
development of a child. This is because the child’s first social environment is the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
home in which shehe lives. The home and the family will determine his first attitudes towards people and social activities. Based on Psychology of the Child,
basically there are two major effects on the life of the child, namely the condition that facilitates some kinds of behaviors and inhibit others and the way the personality
of the child is shaped 297. 3. Child Abuse
Child abuse is a physical, psychological, or emotional maltreatment of children. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC
define child abuse as any act or series of acts or commission or omission by a parent or other caregiver that results in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child.
Mostly, child abuse happen in child’s home, schools or communities the child interacts with. There are four major categories of child abuse: neglected child,
physical abuse, psychologicalemotional abuse, and sexual abuse. http:www.ammericanhumane.orgabout-usnewsroomfact-sheetschild-sexual-
abuses.html. 4. Motherhood
According to Helena Deutsch in her book Psychology of Woman, motherhood is the relationship of the mother to her child as a sociolinguistic, physiologic and
emotional whole. This relationship begins with the conception of the child and extends throughout the further physiologic process of pregnancy, birth, feeding and
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
