SELF-CONCEPT IN EARLY ADULTS WHO HAD BEEN VICTIMS OF PEDOFILIA IN MEDAN CITY, NORTH SUMATRA

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine self-concept in early adulthood who had been
victims of pedophilia, in the city of Medan, North Sumatra. The form of pedophilia
experienced can be known. The method used in this research is a qualitative research
method with a phenomenological approach and collects data through observation,
psychological tests, interviews. The criteria for the subjects in this study were early adults
aged 20-30 years, individuals in this study were early adults who had experienced
pedophilia during childhood. The first subject was 30 years old and experienced
pedophilia during grade 1sd. The second subject was 27 years old and experienced
pedophilia when he was 5 years old. The third subject aged 20 years experienced
pedophilia during grade 6 sd. In this study, it will be seen how the self-concept of
subjects who have been victims of pedophilia in early adulthood. The results showed that
in subject I and III, although the subject experienced unpleasant things when the subject
was still small, it did not make the subject think negatively about himself and other
people. The subject is more grateful for what he has experienced when he was a child,
because the subject is more able to take lessons from the experience. Whereas in subject
II even though the subject said that he began to accept himself, subject II sometimes still
could not accept the conditions he had, blamed himself and the immediate environment
for the incident and still closed himself in conducting social interactions.