The Influence of Education, Economy, Genetic Personality, and Parenting Style toward Children’s Character

This research raises the issue of the importance of the role of parents in educating and shaping children’s character at an early stage of development. The main focus of this research is to explore the influence of parental involvement factors on students’ character development, with the main questions regarding how much parents are involved, what factors are involved, and the results of children’s character. Through a quantitative approach with data collection through questionnaires and literature review, research participants were selected from various backgrounds, experiences, and levels of involvement of students and parents as children. data analysis through questionnaires obtained 147 respondents consisting of 110 women and 37 men with age levels ranging from less than 20 to more than 25 years. The results of this study show the relationship between the variables of parental roles and children’s character. There are 4 variables of factors influence parental education on children’s character. The four variables are parental education, economic or parental employment, the influence of genetic personality, and the parenting style used by parents. This study confirms that parental involvement, both through character education and active support, plays a key role in shaping characters such as self-confidence, independence, lack of social interaction, emotional control, and responsibility at an early stage of their development.