The Influence of Social Support on Student Discipline

Abstract

Social support is very important and it affects the discipline of a student so as to cause the occurrence of negative behavior problems and cause criminal cases in society. This article aims to give an overview on the importance of social support to the discipline of vocational college students and the objective to be achieved through this study is to identify the disciplinary problems of vocational college students and identify the social support involved in affecting the discipline of vocational college students. This article is a review paper in approaches information seeking on social support in disciplines including government report data, proceedings, journals and electronic references. The results of this study have found that one of the main factor that cause disciplinary problems is due to lack of social support. The highest case of discipline among vocational college students is the problem of skipping classes. The effect of lack of social supports among students lead to negative behavior which eventually leading to various disciplinary problem. Social supports is crucial for student as it helps to shape personal characteristic especially at this age, students often in the process of discovering their self-identity.