Proses Pemaafan pada Remaja yang Terpapar Kekerasan Dalam Rumah Tangga

Abstract

The objective of this research is to study the process of forgiveness in adolescents who have been exposed to domestic violence of their parents. Participants for this research were two 20 years old women. This research used qualitative approach with method of collecting data used was interview and observation. This research tried to describe the stages of forgiveness from the two subjects who were exposed from physical and psychological violence by their parents since childhood. This research also explained what was the factors that affected the process of forgiveness from each participants that consisted of emotional intelligence, respondent’s response,empathy, reflection, commitment to religion and victims’ personal factor.Based on the result of this research, the factors that affected from Subject 1 that consisted of commitment to religion, empathy and victims’ personal factor. Meanwhile, forgiveness factors of Subject 2 were only consisted of reflection and victims’ personal factor. The uniqueness of this research is to know is there another affects from violence’s exposure beside the revenge. It is concluded that victims’ personal factor is the most dominant factor that affected their forgiveness towards their parents, respondents have a tendency to feel guilty easily and its trigger factor for forgiveness. Both of them did different types of forgiveness, subject 1 did Total Forgiveness while Subject 2 did Silent Forgiveness.