How to increase the students’ prosocial behavior in the era of technology?

Abstract

Development of technology affects many aspects of human life. One of them is its negative impact on prosocial behavior of students. This important behavior must be increased in order to help the students to live adaptively. This research employed qualitative method with ethnographic study and the data was collected through in-depth interview with many school counsellors in Indonesia. The results showed that to improve prosocial behavior can be done in several ways, namely considering its urgency, the impact of technology on prosocial behavior, management of the influencing factors, and the services of guidance and counselling that utilize the enhancement of technology. Thus, the school counsellors are suggested to discover the effectiveness of the ways and invent another new technique to increase prosocial behavior.