| dc.description.abstract | Prosocial behavior is defined as voluntary conduct that benefits other people.
Factors that can influence prosocial behavior are very diverse, namely parenting
factors, environmental factors, mood factors, and especially empathy factors. This
study aims to determine the relationship between empathy and prosocial behavior
among social media users. This research is a correlational quantitative research. The
premise of this research is that there will be a correlation between empathy and
prosocial behavior in social media user. Participants in this study totaled 200 people
with an age range of 20-40 years, 83 men and 117 women. The measuring
instrument in this study uses three scales, namely the Prosocialness Scale for Adults
(Caprara, 2005), Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis, 1983), and also Intensity
Scale of Social Media Use (Andarwati, 2016). The data analysis technique uses the
multiple linear regression technique. Based on the data, it was obtained a
significance value of 0.000 and 0.039 (<0.05) meaning that the hypothesis was
accepted. This study shows that there is a relationship between empathy and
prosocial behavior among social media users. | en_US |
