Understanding Pro-Social Behavior: The Impact of Empathy on Adolescents in Rural and Urban Areas

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10.2991/acpch-18.2019.83How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Empathy, pro-social behavior, adolescent

Abstract

Pro-social behavior is a form of someone's action that aims to help others. One of the factor that supports pro-social behavior is empathy. Empathy can be interpreted as a person's ability to understand the feelings and circumstances of others. The purpose of this study is to see the effect of empathy on prosocial behavior among adolescents in rural and urban areas. The research subjects were adolescents total of 95 people. Data analysis used descriptive test, and Linear Regression Test. The results showed that the majority of adolescent in rural and urban areas had a moderate level of empathy and prosocial behavior. While the results of regression analysis show that empathy generally has an influence on the prosocial behavior of adolescents in rural and urban areas of (31.2%) with p = 0.00 <0.05. Empathy affects the prosocial behavior of adolescents in rural areas by (34.4%) with p = 0.00 <0.05, whereas in adolescents of the urban areas empathy has an influence on prosocial behavior of (31.8%) with p = 0.00 <0.05. This means that empathy has a greater effect on prosocial behavior of adolescents in rural areas compared to adolescents in urban areas.

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© 2019, 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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AU  - Siti Naharotun Nikmah
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TI  - Understanding Pro-Social Behavior: The Impact of Empathy on Adolescents in Rural and Urban Areas
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