Kemampuan Self-Esteem Siswa Perempuan dan Laki-laki pada Lingkungan Sekolah yang Terindikasi Bullying

Abstract

Bullying is a social problem that often occurs in schools. The significant impact that teenagers feel about bullying behavior has an impact on mental health. Based on the latest reports, the level of bullying incidents in the Kemala Bhayangkari 1 Sungai Raya secondary school remains a major concern. Bullying Behavior can take many forms, including verbal, physical, social, and cyberbullying. Of course, teenagers who are victims and those in the school environment will continue to follow these incidents and this will affect their self-esteem. Self-esteem is a person's assessment of themselves, which of course is very important for teenagers to have. This research uses an inferential quantitative research method that compares the self-esteem of adolescent girls and boys. The results of data collection obtained through distributing questionnaires, an independent parametric t test was carried out using the IBM SPSS Statistics 27 application. The results of this research were that there was no significant difference between the self-esteem of female and male students in school environments that had indications of bullying.