Hubungan antara Kemampuan Berempati dengan Kecenderungan Perilaku Delinkuen

Abstract

The goal of this research was to tested the relationship between empathy ability and tendency of juvenile deliquency. Hypothesis that submitted in this research was there's a negative relationship between empathy ability and tendency of juvenile deliquency. More empathy ability that subjects had, means less tendency of juvenile deliquency that subjects had. It also the opposite, less empathy ability that subjects had, means more tendency of juvenile deliquency that subjects had. Subjects that used in this research are 123 students in 10th and 11th grade of SMA Negeri 9 Yogyakarta with the percentage was 43.1% of male and 56.9% of female. The range of subjects's age was 14-17 years old. The data collecting methods was using two types of scale, the scale of empathy ability and the scale of juvenile delinquency tendencies. The writer developed the scale of empathy ability with modify the scale by Aryani (2007) based on aspects of empathy by Davis (Lerner, Adair, Plumb, Rhatigan, & Orsillo, 2007), which covers aspects of perspective taking, fantasy, emphatic concern, and personal distress which consists of 37 aitem. Tendency of juvenile delinquency developed by the researcher based on juvenile delinquency's aspects by Jensen (Sarwono, 2008), which includes behaviors that cause physical casualties, behavior that cause the material victim, which violated state behavior, and behavior that does not cause the victim to other parties but rather to harm yourself, which consists of 44 aitem. The method of data analysis conducted in this study was using the Pearson's Product Moment with the help of SPSS 15 for Windows. The results of tested the relationship between empathy ability and tendency of juvenile deliquency indicates that empathy ability associated with high and low propensity tendency of juvenile delinquency (R = -0.454 with p = 0.000 (p<0.05) the hypothesis accepted). The empathy ability has effectively contributed to tendency of juvenile delinquency for 20.6%.