Pengaruh Kecerdasan Emosi dan Pola Asuh Otoritatif Terhadap Perilaku Prososial Anak Usia 9-11 Tahun pada Siswa SD Negeri 2 Passo Kecamatan Baguala Di Kota Ambon

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat pengaruh kecerdasan emosi dan pola asuh otoritatif secara simultan terhadap perilaku prososial anak usia 9 – 11 tahun pada SD Negeri 2 Passo Kecamatan Baguala di Kota Ambon. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan cara menyebarkan angket. Sampel penelitian adalah siswa yang berusia 9 – 11 tahun di SD Negeri 2 Passo yang berjumlah 107 siswa. Hasil penelitian dengan analisis regresi berganda melalui program SPSS windows versi 16.0, menunjukan harga F = 8.617 pada p = 0.000 (p0.05) untuk pengaruh antara variabel kecerdasan emosi dengan perilaku prososial. Harga t = 2.961 pada p = 0.004 (p<0.05) untuk pengaruh antara pola asuh otoritatif dengan perilaku prososial. Artinya, secara parsial variabel kecerdasan emosi tidak berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap perilaku prososial dan variabel pola asuh otoritatif berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap perilaku prososial

Exploring Third Party Moral Transgressions in Preschool-Age Children

The present study investigates agent-neutral application of moral norms in preschool-age children and seeks to replicate a previous study that found children as young as 3 to actively intervene in third-party moral transgressions. The relationship between verbal ability and moral intervention is also explored. In an experimental research design, 3, 4, and 5-year-olds and two puppets each created their own drawing together, after which one confederate puppet left the room. The participants were randomly assigned to either a Harm condition (in which the absent puppet’s drawing was destroyed by the remaining puppet) or a Control condition (in which an extra piece of paper in the room was destroyed by the remaining puppet). Children showed more moral interventions in the Harm condition than the Control condition. Verbal ability had no significant relationship with children’s moral interventions. Findings were consistent with past literature, thus enhancing the external validity of the empirical relationship between the very young and possession of agent-neutral moral norms

Long-term musical group interaction has a positive influence on empathy in children

Musical group interaction (MGI) is a complex social setting requiring certain cognitive skills that may also elicit shared psychological states. We argue that many MGI-specific features may also be important for emotional empathy, the ability to experience another person’s emotional state. We thus hypothesized that long-term repeated participation in MGI could help enhance a capacity for emotional empathy even outside of the musical context, through a familiarization with and refinement of MGI empathy-promoting musical components (EPMCs). We tested this hypothesis by designing an MGI programme for primary school children consisting of interactive musical games implementing various EPMCs. We ran the programme for an entire school year and compared the emotional empathy of MGI children to control children using existing and novel measures of empathy before and after the programme. Our results support our hypothesis: MGI children showed higher emotional empathy scores after the study compared to its beginning, and higher scores than control children at the end of the study. These findings shed new light on the emotional processes involved in musical interaction and highlight the remarkable potential of MGI for promoting positive social-emotional capacities such as empathy.This research was supported by an Overseas Research Studentship (ORS) award, Cambridge Overseas Trust award, AVI Fellowship and Kenneth Lindsay (Anglo-Israel Association) scholarship awarded to Tal-Chen Rabinowitch

In Bonobos Yawn Contagion Is Higher among Kin and Friends

In humans, the distribution of yawn contagion is shaped by social closeness with strongly bonded pairs showing higher levels of contagion than weakly bonded pairs. This ethological finding led the authors to hypothesize that the phenomenon of yawn contagion may be the result of certain empathic abilities, although in their most basal form. Here, for the first time, we show the capacity of bonobos (Pan paniscus) to respond to yawns of conspecifics. Bonobos spontaneously yawned more frequently during resting/relaxing compared to social tension periods. The results show that yawn contagion was context independent suggesting that the probability of yawning after observing others\u27 yawns is not affected by the propensity to engage in spontaneous yawns. As it occurs in humans, in bonobos the yawing response mostly occurred within the first minute after the perception of the stimulus. Finally, via a Linear Mixed Model we tested the effect of different variables (e.g., sex, rank, relationship quality) on yawn contagion, which increased when subjects were strongly bonded and when the triggering subject was a female. The importance of social bonding in shaping yawn contagion in bonobos, as it occurs in humans, is consistent with the hypothesis that empathy may play a role in the modulation of this phenomenon in both species. The higher frequency of yawn contagion in presence of a female as a triggering subject supports the hypothesis that adult females not only represent the relational and decisional nucleus of the bonobo society, but also that they play a key role in affecting the emotional states of others

EMPATI DAN PERILAKU PROSOSIAL PADA MAHASISWA PENGGUNA KERETA REL LISTRIK

Kereta rel listrik (KRL) adalah jenis transportasi yang banyak diminati masyarakat Indonesia, khususnya mahasiswa menggunakan KRL karena harganya terjangkau, di dalam KRL sering terlihat perilaku prososial pada orang umumya termasuk mahasiswa seperti memberikan tempat duduk kepada ibu hamil, membawa balita dan penyandang disabilitas, perilaku prososial berhubungan dengan empati yang ada pada setiap individu. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan empati dengan perilaku prososial pada mahasiswa pengguna KRL. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif. Partisipan penelitian ini adalah 100 mahasiswa pengguna KRL. Teknik pengambilan sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah purposive sampling. Berdasarkan analisis yang telah dilakukan dengan korelasi Pearson dapat diketahui bahwa hipotesis diterima dengan nilai koefisien korelasi sebesar 0.702 (p < .01) yang berarti terdapat hubungan positif yang sangat signifikan antara empati dengan perilaku prososial pada mahasiswa pengguna KRL. Arah hubungan positif artinya menunjukkan bahwa, semakin tinggi empati maka semakin tinggi perilaku prososial pada mahasiswa pengguna KRL

Helping At-Risk Youth to ‘Think Big’: A Partnership between a College and a Community Agency

The literature on youth community service activities indicates that adolescents who are actively involved in their community have a stronger self-image and value themselves more than adolescents who do not take part (Conrad & Hedin, 1991; Shumer, 1997, 2005). Research suggests that youth community services programs have the potential to be an interesting and engaging means to promote positive youth development. Moreover, having at-risk youth engage in community service activities can be an opportune vehicle for promoting positive youth development and outcomes. The present study attempts to meet this need by promoting adolescent empowerment and a sense of community via a partnership between a liberal arts college and a community agency which serves underprivileged families and youth.  Quantitative results show that empathy and general self-efficacy scores increased among participants from pre- to post-test. Qualitative findings of all parties involved were positive. Implications this study are outlined as well

We can resolve our conflicts: introducing a conflict resolution education program

Bu makalenin amacı, ilköğretim birinci kademe öğrencileri arasında yaşanan şiddeti azaltmak ve önlemek amacıyla geliştirilmiş olan Anlaşmazlıklarımızı Çözebiliriz çatışma çözümü eğitim programını tanıtmak; programın temellendirildiği kuramlar ve görgül çalışmalar hakkında bilgi vermektir. Program, yapıcı çatışma çözümü, empati, öfke kontrolü ve sosyal bilgi işleme kuramları üzerine temellendirilmiştir. Eğitim süresince öyküler, fotoğraflar, karikatürler, posterler, çizgi filmler gibi çocukların ilgisini çekebilecek materyaller kullanılmakta, kalem-kağıt aktiviteleri, sınıf tartışmaları, oyun, rol oynama, drama gibi farklı tekniklerden yararlanılmaktadır. Çatışma çözümü eğitim programlarının etkililiği konusunda yapılan araştırma sonuçları, sosyal ve duygusal becerilerin öğrenilebileceğini ve bu becerilerin kazanımıyla saldırgan davranışların azaltılabileceğini göstermektedir.This paper provides a description of We Can Resolve Our Conflicts education program designed to prevent and reduce aggression in elementary school students and an overview of its theoretical and empirical foundations. The program was based on the theories of empathy, anger control, social information processing, and constructive conflict resolution. Effectiveness of the program was also examined by two empirical studies. The program aims active participation of the students therefore materials interesting for children such as stories, photos, cartoons, posters, films and different techniques such as pen and paper activities, class discussions, plays, role-plays, drama are utilized in the program. Studies examining the effectiveness of conflict resolution education programs have suggested that social and emotional skills can be taught and aggression can be reduced by these acquisitions

The Effect of Communication and Immigration Activities in 7th Grade Social Studies Course on the Empathy Skills of Students

The feeling of empathy is as old as the humankind. Empathy is an attempt to perceive the emotions and to understand the thoughts of other individuals and discern their point of view. Due to such aspects, empathy presents “a focus on other individuals”. In general terms, empathy was defined as “adopting a sensitive attitude towards correctly understanding the emotions and thoughts of another individual, encountering any event, through placing oneself in the place of that individual during the process of communication.”The present study was intended to determine the effects of the communication and immigration subjects in the 7th grade social studies course on the empathy skills of students through employing the didactic approach, which is one of the techniques for empathy development.Concurrent nested (embedded) design, a mixed research method, was employed in the present study. Mixed-method research is defined as the approach through which the researcher draws conclusions by using the advantage of integrating qualitative and quantitative methods, approaches and concepts in a study or consecutive studies with the aim to understand diverse research models. The quantitative data in the present study were obtained via the “Index of Empathy for Children and Adolescents”, whereas the qualitative data were collected through interview forms.Almost all students emphasized the significance of empathy and understanding the feelings of the migrants for understanding the causes and consequences of immigration throughout the activities related to immigration

Influence of Emotion Regulation and Empathy on Thai Parenting Behavior: A Path Analytic Model

Research has identified emotion regulation and empathy as the two factors that have strong associations with positive parenting behavior. It remains unclear, however, how emotion regulation, empathy, and parenting behavior are related. As an attempt to fill in this gap in research, the present study explored the influence of emotion regulation strategies, namely expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal, and empathy on the parenting behavior of Thai parents who live in Bangkok, Thailand. The research design of this present study was cross-sectional and correlational, using the path analysis via multiple regression analysis to test the hypotheses. Two path models were tested, for fathers and mothers separately. Two hundred fifty-two parents were recruited from three schools, four private organizations, and a parenting network to voluntarily participate in this study. Results revealed that the relationships among the variables were significantly different for fathers and mothers. Specifically, cognitive reappraisal had no direct effect on positive/negative parenting behavior, while the effect of expressive suppression on negative parenting behavior was significant only for mothers. Similarly, the mediating effect of empathy on emotion regulation strategies and parenting behavior was significant only for mothers. Both models, however, showed that empathy was a significant predictor of parenting behavior, which was consistent with what previous studies found. Future studies should continue to explore the predictors of parental empathy, including the emotion regulation strategies that are relevant to the Thai parenting context