Correlation between Assertiveness and Empathy with Adolescent's Social Adjustment in Social Home of South Jakarta

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10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.23How to use a DOI?

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Social Adjustment, Assertiveness, Empathy, Adolescent of Social Home

Abstract

This research was conducted to study the correlation between assertiveness and empathy with social adjustment of adolescents in a social home of South Jakarta. Social adjustments include real appearances, adaptation to groups, social attitudes, and personal satisfaction. Assertiveness involves the ability to requests, reject, self-express and participate in the conversation. Empathy consists of aspects cognitive, affective, and communicative (cognition, affection, communication?). Fifty adolescents boys and girls aged 11 ??" 22 who live at Social Home of Bina Remaja in South Jakarta took part in the study were collected using total sampling technique. The participants completed questionnaires measuring social adjustment, assertiveness, and empathy. The results showed that both assertiveness and empathy were positively correlated significant with social adjustment of adolescent’s social home in South Jakarta.

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© 2018, 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  - Elidayani Rodearni Simarmata
AU  - Anizar Rahayu
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Correlation between Assertiveness and Empathy with Adolescent's Social Adjustment in Social Home of South Jakarta
BT  - Proceedings of the Universitas Indonesia International Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 157
EP  - 163
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.23
DO  - 10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.23
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