Pengaruh Kesepian Terhadap Agresivitas Verbal di Media Sosial Pada Mahasiswa Universitas Mulawarman

Abstract

The advancement of technologies and the internet not only bring positive impacts but also the negative ones. The emergence of an attitude of aggression in cyberspace in a form of making posts with negative conotation is one form of this negative impact. This attitude is driven by several things, one of which is the level of loneliness felt by individuals. This study aims to determine the effect of loneliness towards verbal aggression in Mulawarman University students. The subjects of this study were 150 students of Mulawarman University who were selected using purposive sampling technique. The measuring instruments used in this study are using verbal aggression scale and loneliness scale and then analyzed using the Kendall tau analysis resulting in the value of r = 0.642 and p = 0.000 < 0.05. These results indicate that there is an influence between loneliness towards verbal aggression on social media in Mulawarman University students.