THE INFLUENCE OF CLOTHING STYLE ON TEENAGE GIRLS’ SELF-ESTEEM

• Main Author: Cynthia, Sharon
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/42705
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Self-esteem is a holistic perspective from the individual to him or herself. Good selfesteem can have effects to a pleasing life and good life. However, low self-esteem can make someone feel inferior, unconfident, losing initiative and the need to think. The Indonesian ministry of health recorded the prevalence of mental disturbance that is shown with depression symptoms on people above 15 years old. It can be about 14 million people or 6 percent of the total population of Indonesia. In comparison with male teenagers, female teenagers have the worry issue toward the things related to their body. Appearance is one of the main factor that can increase female adoloscent’s self esteem, one important thing that is related to the appearance in the personal actualization context is clothing. Teenagers’ selfesteem can edify their personality when they face problems and succeed to overcome. This research is aimed to identify what clothing model which can influence their self-esteem on female teenagers in choosing the clothes is. The methods that are applied in this research is mixed methods which are the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. The results of this study indicates that, there are significant influence between clothing styles on the selfesteem of adolescent girls (study of Jakarta adolescent girls aged 17-20 years old who have middle up to upper social classes).