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

摘要

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.