Empathy and Its Relation to Youth Nationalism in Jakarta

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10.2991/assehr.k.200529.031How to use a DOI?

Keywords

nationalism, empathy, emerging adulthood

Abstract

One of factual condition is when observing changes in the attitude of nationalism that occurs in society. The role of nationalism and empathy has been examined from various research studies and representing a variety of perspectives. This study was conducted on 54 individuals who are at the stage of emerging adulthood age. This study uses two measuring instruments, heroism measurement tools, one of which is nationalism. Next, the empathy measurement tool was adapted from The Interpersonal Reactivity Index on the Emphatic Concern Scale dimension. The results of the analysis using the Spearman correlation, prove that there is a positive correlation between nationalism and empathy variables with a correlation score r = 0.491, p = 0.01 <0.05. That is, the higher nationalism in individuals shows the higher empathy in individuals. Empirical findings from this study that nationalism and empathy of the participants are classified as high.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rahmah Hastuti
AU  - Pamela Hendra Heng
AU  - Naomi Soetikno
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/04
TI  - Empathy and Its Relation to Youth Nationalism in Jakarta
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 148
EP  - 152
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.031
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.031
ID  - Hastuti2020
ER  -