The Role of Empathy in Predicting Cyberbullying Behaviour in Youth Social Media Users in Jakarta

Andrea Prita Purnama Ratri, Esther Widhi Andangsari

2018

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the empathy role to predict cyberbullying behavior for social media users in college students in Jakarta. There is 366 people with classification age 18 – 25 years old as samples. Respondents were taken by using probability sampling technique, simple random and cluster sampling. To measures the empathy, researcher adapted Basic Empathy Scale that delevoped by Jollife and Farrington, while the cyberbullying behavior measured with Cyber Bullying Scale by Çetin, Yaman, and Peker. Logistic regression was used for analysis the hypotheses, all testing technique performed using SPSS software 20. The result showed the coefficients -0,031 with significance 0,03 (p < 0,05) means there’s a significance role of empathy for predicting cyberbullying behavior for college student who used social media, and everytime the empathy increase then the cyberbullying behavior will decrease.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Purnama Ratri A. and Andangsari E. (2018). The Role of Empathy in Predicting Cyberbullying Behaviour in Youth Social Media Users in Jakarta. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 391-398. DOI: 10.5220/0010008600002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={Andrea Prita Purnama Ratri and Esther Widhi Andangsari},
title={The Role of Empathy in Predicting Cyberbullying Behaviour in Youth Social Media Users in Jakarta},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={391-398},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010008600002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - The Role of Empathy in Predicting Cyberbullying Behaviour in Youth Social Media Users in Jakarta
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Purnama Ratri A.
AU - Andangsari E.
PY - 2018
SP - 391
EP - 398
DO - 10.5220/0010008600002917