PA GE 20
62 IPRC 2022/BOR A- Social Psychology 02
Fanaticism, Conformity, and Verbal Aggression Among Adolescents Who Are Kpop Idol Fans Actively Use Twitter
Sarah Fadhilah Ramadhani1, Arie Suciyana Sriyanto2 [email protected]1, [email protected]2
Universitas Mercu Buana, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
One phenomenon that quite often occurs among K-pop fans on social media is verbal aggression, The acts will start by one fan, will rapidly follow by the others. From the preliminary study occurs the drive to conduct verbal abuse to others is deliberately carried out by K-pop fans to protect their idols from attacks by others considered detrimental to their idols. Is to look at the relationship between fanaticism and conformity with verbal aggression among K-pop idol fans actively use twitter. This study uses a quantitative approach with a correlational method. This study was using adaptation of fanaticism scale, conformity scale, and verbal aggression scale. Researcher used the accidental technique collecting data from 4360 adolescent who are K-pop idol fans aged 18 until 22 years old and actively using twitter as a media to get an information about their favourite idol. The data were analyzed using Spearman Correlations technique. The results of this study indicate that adolescents who are K-pop idol fans with high fanaticism and conformity will have a high verbal aggression in their twitter account. We encourage future research to be conduct research that relates verbal aggression behavior to personality, self-control, intelligence level, and self-identity.
Keywords: fanaticism, conformity, verbal aggression, k-pop idol fans, twitter
