The Impact of Empathy towards Cyberbullying Behavior among Adolescents Who Accessed TikTok in Indonesia

Zulian Fikry, Gumi Rizal, Willy Sintia

2021

Abstract

The study was based on numerous phenomenon of cyberbullying among Indonesian adolescents who use social media, especially the adolescents who access TikTok videos. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of empathy on cyberbullying behavior among adolescents who access TikTok videos.The respondents were Adolescents who accessed TikTok using TikTok Application and also those who used various video viewing platform like Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and other to see TikTok videos. There were 708 adolescents across Indonesia had participated as respondent with age range of 12-21 years old. The data was collected using Empathy Questionaires (19 items) and Cyberbullying Questionaires (31 items). Both scale items was selected by using Corrected Item Total Correlation (≥ 0,30). The two scales coefficient of reliability by using Chronbach’s Alpha was α=0,86 for Empathy Questionaires, and α=0,924 for Cyberbullying Questionaires. The collected data were analyzed using linear regression analysis. The study found significant impact of empathy towards s cyberbullying behavior among adolescents who accessed the TikTok videos (sig<0,05). The direction of the correlation of empathy towards cyberbullying is negative (F= -0,543).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fikry Z., Rizal G. and Sintia W. (2021). The Impact of Empathy towards Cyberbullying Behavior among Adolescents Who Accessed TikTok in Indonesia. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Mental Health - Volume 1: Icometh, ISBN 978-989-758-586-9, pages 83-89. DOI: 10.5220/0011095900003368

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icometh21,
author={Zulian Fikry and Gumi Rizal and Willy Sintia},
title={The Impact of Empathy towards Cyberbullying Behavior among Adolescents Who Accessed TikTok in Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Mental Health - Volume 1: Icometh,},
year={2021},
pages={83-89},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011095900003368},
isbn={978-989-758-586-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Mental Health - Volume 1: Icometh,
TI - The Impact of Empathy towards Cyberbullying Behavior among Adolescents Who Accessed TikTok in Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-586-9
AU - Fikry Z.
AU - Rizal G.
AU - Sintia W.
PY - 2021
SP - 83
EP - 89
DO - 10.5220/0011095900003368