The Relationship Between Understanding the Concept of Democracy and the Attitude of Daring to Express Opinions with the Behaviour of Respecting Differences

Abstract

Multicultural society holds many strengths from each group, but also holds seeds of division that come from clashes between cultures, ethnicities, races, ethics, and prevailing values. This research uses quantitative methods with correlational techniques. The population was class IX students at SMPN-2 Tambun, Bekasi, with proportional random sampling technique obtained a sample of 103 people. The results showed: (1) There is a relationship between understanding democracy and behaviour of respecting differences with a correlation coefficient ry1 of 0.776 and a regression equation at a significance level of α = 0.05. (2) There is a relationship between the attitude of daring to express opinions with respect for differences in behaviour, with a correlation coefficient ry2 of 0.718 and a regression equation at a significance level of α = 0.05. (3) There is a positive relationship between understanding the concept of democracy and the attitude of daring to express opinions together with the behaviour of respecting differences with a correlation coefficient R of 0.803and a multiple regression equation = 42.84 + 0.46X1 + 0.32X2 and the price of Fhitung = 91.026>Ftabel = 3.09. The null hypothesis is rejected and the research hypothesis is accepted at the 0.05 significance level.