HUBUNGAN DUKUNGAN SOSIAL DENGAN PERILAKU PROSOSIAL REMAJA

Human are highly social beings that should be useful to others. In this sophisticated era, the community is frequently depicted as an individual image which leads to the low of prosocial behavior. This situations leads to adverse impacts, such as anti-social or juvenile delinquency (juvenile offending). The existence of social support is able to prevent negative behavior of the adolescent. The purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between social support and prosocial behavior of the adolescent. This study used a Quantitative Correlation Study. The subjects involved in this study were 165 junior high school students with the range of 12 to 15 years old. The data were collected using a scale of social support and prosocial behavior. The results of the study showed that there is a positive correlation between social support and prosocial behavior of the adolescent