Empati dan Kompetensi Komunikasi Interpersonal pada Mahasiswa Tingkat Satu

Abstract

Empathy plays an important role in international communication because empathy creates a good relationship based on interpersonal communication, especially in grade one college students. The aim of this research is to measure contribution of empathy to interpersonal communication competence in grade one college students. The participants of this research are 84 college students consist of 42 male and 42 female grade one college students. The results show the regression coefficient F=95.071 (p< .01), and R Square around 53.7%. This results also show that empathy really has significant contribution to interpersonal communication competence in grade one college students.