PENGARUH COMPASSION TERHADAP AGRESIVITAS PELAJAR SMA

Cases of student aggressiveness have increased and decreased from year to year, but
it is known that West Java province occupies the first position as the province with the most
cases of brawls between students in Indonesia. The negative impact of student aggressiveness
behavior includes low learning achievement, encouraging other students to commit aggression
behavior, getting the label of unruly students, and death. External factors such as parenting,
friends, negative school environment and internal factors such as gender, personality type, self�control, and compassion have a relationship to manifest aggressiveness behavior in individuals.
This study aims to determine the effect of compassion on the aggressiveness of high school
students. This research method is quantitative with a correlational design. The population of
this study were high school students in Bogor city with a sample size of 271 research subjects.
The sampling technique in this study was through purposive sampling. Data collection was
carried out using the compassion and aggressiveness adaptation scale. The data analysis
technique used simple linear regression. The results of this study found that compassion has a
significant negative effect on aggressiveness. The implications of this study are expected to be
used as a source of reference for future research to expand findings and insights in related topics
and are expected to be a source of education for teachers to students about the importance of
compassion.