Interpersonal Relationship between Lecturers and Students of Technological and Vocational Education

this study aims at finding out to: 1) the dimensions of interpersonal relationship between lecturers and the students of technology and vocational education, 2) the profile of interpersonal relationship between the lecturers and the students, and 3) the most dominant dimension of interpersonal relationship between lecturer and students. This research can be categorized as survey research. The population of this research was all students of Faculty of Engineering Yogyakarta State University and the research sample was 210 students who were taken randomly from each department. Data were collected by questionnaire with scale 4. Data analysis was done with descriptive statistics and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). The study showed that: 1) the dimensions of significant interpersonal relationships between lecturer and student consist of leading, helpful, understanding, freedom, uncertain, and strict; Meanwhile the dissatisfied and admonishing dimensions were not significant. 2) In the scale of 5-20, the mean of the leading dimensions = 13.614, understanding = 13.569, freedom = 12.662, helpful = 12.152, strict = 11.636, dissatisfied = 8.881, admonishing = 8.657, and uncertain = 7.957. 3) Based on the mean score, the most dominant interpersonal relationship was leading, while based on the factor load was helpful.