MEMBANGUN KARAKTER REMAJA SEHAT DAN KREATIF: EDUKASI DAN PENCEGAHAN BULLYING MELALUI KEGIATAN POSITIF

Abstract

Adolescent characters are personalities who experience a transition from childhood to adulthood. As teenagers enter puberty, they often become unstable individuals and try new things to find their identity. So it is still vulnerable to environmental and media influences which have recently resulted in bullying both in the community and in the school environment. There needs to be assistance from the family as the main support, from the school and the government through positive activities such as writing stories, exercising and youth posyandu. This service activity was carried out and received support from the village youth posyandu. This service was carried out by teenagers starting from elementary school age who were considered to be entering adolescence. Not only elementary school children, middle school and high school teenagers also attended. Almost 50% of these teenagers have been victims of bullying or harassment by their own friends, and around 20% of service participants have even been perpetrators of bullying indirectly, for example by calling their friends inappropriate names. In the future, they promised to control themselves more and protect themselves from becoming perpetrators or victims of bullying by carrying out positive activities.