ANALISIS PENGARUH MEDIA INTERNET TERHADAP PERILAKU PENYIMPANGAN SEKSUAL PADA REMAJA DI SMP NEGERI 4 TEBING TINGGI

Abstract

The progress of the application of internet media technology among teenagers makes teenagers
spend a lot of time useless, so that few teenagers have experience changes in communication,
ethics, and behavior, even increasing sexual deviance behavior. The purpose of this study was to
determine the effect of internet media on sexual deviance behavior in adolescents of SMP Negeri 4
Tebing Tinggi in 2019. This type of research uses a cross-sectional method. The population in this
study was 90 students. The results show that there is an influence on the frequency of internet
media usage on adolescent sexual deviation behavior. There is an effect of the duration of internet
media usage on adolescent sexual deviation behavior. There is the influence of internet media
access used on adolescent sexual deviation behavior, and the variable that most influences the
behavior of adolescent sexual deviation is the variable frequency of using internet media with
prevalency ratio 3.501. It expected that adolescents do not use the facilities and internet media
their have for pornography. Besides, teenagers should be positive things in their spare time, such
as taking school extracurricular activities, exercising, or did good hobbies to avoid deviant
behavior.