Contribution of Christian Values Upon Students' Character of Dating at Tarutung State Christian Religion Institute

摘要

The research target is to determine the contribution of Christian values in realizing respectful and commendable dating character of PAK study program students at IAKN Tarutung. Data was gathered by using closed questionnaire. The population was 948 students, and the sample was 15%= 142 students. The conclusion of this research is that there is a positive and significant influence of teaching Christian values to students towards their character in making a date with their couple, with the interpretation of Correlation between Christian Values (X1), and students' character (Y1) is 0.453 and (Y2) is 0.375. The coefficient of determination of dating character is 0.453x100% = 45.3%. While the rest amount 54.7% is determined by other variables. Faith and obedience is 0.375x100% = 37.5%, and the rest amount 62.5% is determined by the contribution of other variables.