PENGARUH MINAT SOSIAL TERHADAP KEBAHAGIAAN DITINJAU DARI JENIS KELAMIN PADA REMAJA

Social interest is an individual's attachment to other people to engage and participate in social activities and empathy for every human being with cooperation to advance social and the desire to help each other to other individuals. Happiness is measured through the level of subjective well- being experienced by adolescents. The subjects in this study consisted of 127 adolescents aged between 15-18 years old, consisting of 54 adolescent boys and 73 adolescent girls. Data were collected using a questionnaire that included a social interest scale and a happiness scale. Data analysis was conducted using simple linear regression analysis techniques to test whether there is an effect of social interest on happiness. Meanwhile, to test whether there are differences in terms of gender using the T-test. The results showed that social interest has a significant positive influence on adolescent happiness with an F value of 24,156 with a significance value of p=0.000 (p>0.05) which means positive or directly proportional. Thus, it can be concluded that social interest affects adolescent happiness. Teenagers with high social interest tend to have a higher level of happiness compared to teenagers with low social interest. In addition, significant differences were found based on gender.