The Effectiveness of Film Therapy in Increasing Empathy Among Students

Abstract

Empathy is a power to understanding the heart, mind, and soul of another person including motives, background, and feelings. The greater the empathy for others, the greater a person can appreciate and respect others and by doing film therapy is expected to have the power to pull a person out of themselves and into the view of their character. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of film therapy in increasing empathy in students in Palembang city before and after being given treatment in the form of film therapy. The sample in this study were fifteen students in Palembang city with moderate to low empathy with a research design of one group pre-test post-test design. The results of the analysis based on the output table on the results of the t test obtained a sig value = 0.000 whichh means <0.05, then Ha is accepted because there is a difference between the pretest results and the posttest results which means that the subjects given film therapy have increased empathy.