Forgiveness in Terms of Emotion Regulation and Empathy

Abstract

Victims of bullying are often the perpetrators of bullying. The victims feel hurt by what they have experienced and take their revenge on others who are weaker. The behaviour that can eliminate the feeling of revenge on the victim of bullying is forgiveness. There are several factors of forgiveness including emotion regulation and empathy. This study aims to determine the relationship between emotion regulation and empathy with forgiveness in victims of bullying. The subjects of this study were 233 Yogyakarta students who had been bullied. The measuring instrument used in this study is the forgiveness measure compiled by Nashori. Then for measuring emotion regulation using The Heidelberg Form for Emotion Regulation Strategies (HFERST) compiled by Izadpanah, Barnow, Neubauer, and Holl. The empathy measuring instrument in this study used the Basic Empathy Scale in Adults (BES-A) compiled by Carre, Stefaniak, D’ambrosio and Bensalah. In addition, to measure tool for victims of bullying used the multidimensional peer victimization scale-24 (MPVS-24) compiled by Joseph and Stockton. The results showed that the F-count value was 43,466 with a significance value of 0.000 <0.05. Based on this, it shows that there is a simultaneous influence of emotion regulation and empathy on forgiveness. research shows that there is a relationship between emotion regulation and empathy with forgiveness in victims bullying.