TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - The meaning of Javanese adolescents' involvement in youth gangs during the discoveries of youth identity: a phenomenological study
JO  - Qualitative report, The
A1  - Hasanah, Enung
A1  - Supardi, Supardi
SP  - 3602
EP  - 3626
VL  - 25
IS  - 10
N2  - ogyakarta is a part of Javanese society. Javanese culture, which always enforces moral values, has a practical implication toward adolescents' views about their self-identity. Yogyakarta adolescents are well known to have positive self-identity, good behavior, and tend to become successful persons in their youth. In the past years, a phenomenon of youth gangs that often conduct irresponsible acts such as brawls, stabbing terror, and even murder has emerged. The question of the research is how adolescent members of a youth gang give meaning to their involvement in a youth gang. To answer the question, we used a phenomenological research method. We employed a modified Colaizzi method as defined by Moustakas (1994) to analyze the data. The participants of the research are adolescents with criteria as follows: coming from the Javanese family, living in Yogyakarta, a high school student, a member of a youth gang, had been involved in law violation. The research results show that Javanese adolescents, members of a youth gang, value their involvement in the gang as a means of showing their self-existence because the gang is the only place that provides wiggle room to express themselves, adolescents failed to construct values about self-existence, and also they lacked appreciation from their closest people and their environment.   Keywords    Adolescent, Youth Gang, Self-Identity, Indonesia, Phenomenology<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1052-0147
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2020.4409
ID  - ref1
ER  -