Perilaku Prososial Sebagai Prediktor Status Teman Sebaya Pada Remaja

In the peer group of adolescence, peer status plays a crucial role. There are 5 kinds of peer status, namely popular, rejected, neglected, controversial, and average status. Social competence of the youth can be a predictor of peer status, one of the youth’s social competences that becomes the focus of this research is prosocial behaviour. Prosocial behavior is generally acceptable in social environment; however, the significance of prosocial behaviour in predicting the status of adolescents in peer groups still needs to be studied. Prosocial behaviour was identified through Peer Assessment Prosocial Behaviour adapted from Greener (2000), while peer status was identified through sociometric techniques by categorizing peer status according to the techniques by Coie, Dodge, and Cappotelli (1982). There were 114 adolescents as research participants (57.9% male, Mean Age = 12.70 years). With multinomial logistic regression analysis, it was concluded that prosocial behaviour was able to predict peer status (χ2 (4) = 48.68, p