PENGARUH PENGGUNAAN MEDIA SOSIAL TERHADAP EMPATI SISWA KELAS VI SD NEGERI 54 BANDA ACEH

Abstract

This reseacrh was motivated by the increasing use of social media among

elementary school students, which has the potential to influence their socio-

emotional development, particularly empathy. The study employed a quantitative

approach with a causal-associative research design. The population consisted of 96

sixth-grade students from SD Negeri 54 Banda Aceh, all of whom were included in

the sample using a total sampling technique. The study aimed to determine the

influence of social media usage on the empathy of these sixth-grade students. Data

were collected using a social media usage questionnaire and an empathy

questionnaire. The data were analyzed using normality tests, linearity tests,

Spearman Rank correlation tests, simple linear regression, and significance tests

(F-test) with the aid of SPSS version 31 software. The results indicated a significant

influence of social media usage on the empathy of the sixth-grade students at SD

Negeri 54 Banda Aceh. The Spearman Rank correlation test yielded a value of -

0.410 with a significance level of < 0.001, indicating a significant negative

relationship of moderate strength. Simple linear regression analysis showed a

regression coefficient of -0.882, with the equation Y = 159.725 – 0.882X and a

significance level of < 0.001. The F-test results showed an F-calculated value of

39.451, which was greater than the F-table value of 3.94 (39.451 > 3.94), with a

significance level of 0.001 < 0.05. The coefficient of determination (R-squared) of

0.296 indicated that social media usage contributed 29.6% to student empathy,

while 70.4% was influenced by factors outside the scope of this study. It is concluded

that social media usage has a significant negative influence on the empathy of sixth-

grade students at SD Negeri 54 Banda Aceh.