Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies (JHSSS) ISSN: 2663-7197 DOI: 10.32996/jhsss Journal Homepage: www.al-kindipublisher.com/index.php/jhsss Page | 1 Assertiveness and Empathy Toward Prosocial Behatior Lisbet Situmorang 1 , As’liyanti Nor 2 , Karenina Amanda Stephanie Pattinasarany 3 , Stevent Resma 4 and Andi Aulia 5 12345 Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Mulawarman University, Indonesia Corresponding Author: Lisbet Situmorang, E-mail: lisbetsitumorang14@gmail.com ARTICLE INFORMATION ABSTRACT Received: August 08, 2021 Accepted: September 14, 2021 Volume: 3 Issue: 9 DOI: 10.32996/jhsss.2021.3.9.1 This study aims to determine the effect of assertiveness and empathy on students' prosocial behavior at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Mulawarman University. This study uses quantitative methods using multiple regression analysis to determine how much influence and predictive ability the two independent variables have on the dependent variable. In this study, the subjects in this study were 100 students of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Mulawarman University, using the accidental sampling method. Data collection methods used include assertiveness, empathy, and prosocial behavior scales. The collected data were analyzed with the help of SPSS 21.0 for the windows program. These results indicate a significant difference between assertiveness and empathy to prosocial behavior. KEYWORDS Crimes; socio-economic factors; economic growth; correlation; regression 1. Introduction 1 Humans are social creatures who live in society. Where humans always live side by side with other humans. Because humans cannot stand alone without the help of other humans, in everyday life, individuals help each other. Such as helping other people who are having trouble on the road, so when other people see the incident, as social beings, individuals should help people who need help even though they do not know each other. Not only on the street, in the neighborhood too, but individuals must also be more caring and sensitive in order to be well received by the community. One of the layers in society is early adulthood. Early adulthood is included in the category of the transition period between adolescence and adulthood. According to Arnett (in Upton, 2012), adolescence and adulthood are also called the period of preparation (emerging adulthood), around 18 to 25 years. This stage can be classified in late adolescence to early adulthood. In terms of development, the developmental task of students is the establishment of life establishments (Yusuf in Huluki and Djibran, 2018). The emergence of modernization and globalization today has a significant impact on human life, resulting in a shift in interaction patterns between individuals and other individuals and changes in values in social life. The interaction between individuals is reduced, and the social contacts that occur are of lower quality and quantity. One form of shifting in the pattern of relationships between individuals and other individuals in the surrounding environment is the depletion of prosocial behavior in society. According to Baron and Byrne (in Muryadi and Matulessy, 2012, prosocial behavior), it is voluntary to help others without getting rewarded. Those who provide help feel satisfied after helping. Prosocial behavior has a unique characteristic that puts the interests of others above personal interests. Welfare and benefit of people or groups is the goal of prosocial behavior. Muryadi dam Matulessy (2012) says that prosocial behavior includes three aspects, namely, actions that are carried out voluntarily, actions were taken are shown for the benefit of other people or a group of other people, and the action as a goal but not as a tool to satisfy personal motives. Published by Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development. Copyright (c) the author(s). This open access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license