1.2 Background of the study
We often hear that the peers are people who are important in helping a person especially in education and improve competitiveness. Peer influence is often associated with a person's attitude, especially adolescent development. This is because, most of the time they spent together with many partners compared with their own families.
Sullivan (1953) in Rosanne, R, Joyce F. Benenson and Frank, L. (2000) say that the peer is a normal thing to someone, especially for children whose peer important to help their social and emotional growth. While according to Hing Keung Ma (2000) in his study found that peer influence academic achievement. This situation suggests that peer influence one's behavior.
Rosanne, R, Joyce F. Benenson and Frank, L (2000) argues that peer relationships will become more intimate in adolescence, until the end of adolescence. While ( Berda , Vaux , and Schill (1984 ) , Burke and Weir (1978 ) , Boldero (1991 ) and Reisman (1990) Rosanne , R , Joyce F. Benenson and Frank , L. (2000 ) says that women are closer to compared with male peers .
However a close relationship with peers also can sometimes cause conflict. What if suddenly your friend be cool, less talk, utter words that quite rude and seemed to avoid getting together with you. This situation may actually be causing a conflict with peers if not dealt with as possible. The question is what is the root cause of this situation? What factors are sometimes allows a good relationship suddenly became cool. Consequently, this study aimed to see whether this phenomenon also occurs in conflicts among their peers, as well known that each peer will complete at least one assignment in groups and requires a good interaction with a group of friends, it would to some extent will rise uneasy feeling of a member in the group. Therefore, this study wanted to see what factors cause