Title:
INTERACTION RELATIONSHIP OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE - PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR ADOLESCENT IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL: WHEN BASED ON GENDER

Authors:
Aghniawati Ahmad and Sigit Sanyata ,Indonesia

Abstract:
Emotional intelligence arises as an impulse in adolescents prosocial behavior. Emotional intelligence consists of four aspects, namely self awareness, self management, social awareness and relationship management. While prosocial behavior consists of aspects of empathy, guilt, and responsibility. In this study, emotional intelligence acts as an internal factor in self that can influence prosocial behavior. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship and influence of emotional intelligence on prosocial behavior in terms of gender. The sample in this study was 135 high school students aged 16-18 that consists of (25 males and 110 women). The survey results revealed through the correlation test that the influence of emotional intelligence on prosocial behavior amounted to 15,8 % and there is no influence of gender on prosocial behavior. The findings in this study showed that the relationship aspect of relationship management to guilt is an aspect with a very significant relationship for adolescent boys, while aspects of social awareness and responsibility are aspects with a significant relationship for adolescent girls. The present study contributes to an understanding of the relationship of emotional intelligence on prosocial behavior in terms of gender and contributing towards understanding the aspect that have relationship in adolescent that are very important to understand for themselves and those around them