Hubungan Antara Empati Dan Pemaafan Pada Mahasiswa Universitas Swasta Islam Di Yogyakarta

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to understand the relationship between empathy and forgiveness at Student of Islamic Private Universities in Yogyakarta. The hypothesis of this study are there is a negative relationship between empathy with TRIM R and TRIM A, and there is a positive relationship between empathy and TRIM B at student of Islamic Private Universities in Yogyakarta. The higher levels of empathy at the student, they less avoidant and revenge, in the other way the higher levels of empathy at the student, they more benevolence. To test the hypothesis, the author measure the empathy level by used Interpersonal Reactivity Index Scale (IRI) which is refer to the theory of Davis (1980) and measure the forgiveness level by used Transgression Related Inventory Motivation (TRIM) which is refer to the theory of McCullough (2006). Both of scale alloted around 265 student of Islamic Private Universities in Yogyakarta which is male and female with aged 17 to 26 years old. The presents results showed that there was positive relationship between empathy with TRIM R and TRIM A with r = 0.000 and p = 0.000 (p <0.05). The hypothesis of the present study was rejected. There was positive relationship between empathy and TRIM B with r = 0.295 and p = 0.087. The hypothesis of the present study was accepted