Abstract :
This research based on communication pattern between parents with
addictive online gaming phenomenon. Communication pattern itself is a simple
imaging of a communication process with the another components. Mostly
parents consider that with the children play online gaming will cause a negative
effect because of the addiction, but there?s some who consider that with the
children play online gaming is exactly motivates their children on their studying.
The truth is so many online gaming places to rent which exactly the most users
are elementary school-aged. Communication pattern is needed to analyze the
imaging of communication that occurs between parents and the children that plays
online gaming.
Communication patterns which used as a reference for analyzing are
authoritarian communication pattern, permissive, and authoritative. These three
communication patterns have their own characteristic differences as how the
parents educate their children.
The method which is used on this research is qualitative descriptive with
an in-depth interview to collect all the datas which are needed on this research.
The results of this research is achieved from the in-depth interview records
with each informans. It shows that each of every parents have their own way to
educate their children especially on playing. Gained from each five informans,
two of them are authoritarily behave, one of them is permissive (set free), and two
of them are authoritative behavior which inclinely demoratic whith their children.
Keywords : Communication pattern, online gaming player.