Peran pemaafan sebagai mediator hubungan antara kebersyukuran dan kebahagiaan pada remaja di panti asuhan

Abstract Happiness is everyone’s need, therefore everyone wants it, including teenagers in orphanages. Happinessis related to gratitude, teenagers in orphanages who have a high level of gratitude will have a high level of happiness.Likewise, teenagers in orphanages who have a high level of gratitude will have a high level of forgiveness. Teenagers inorphanages who forgive tend to be happier than teenagers who don’t forgive. The purpose of this study was to determinethe role of forgiveness as a mediator in the relationship between gratitude and happiness in adolescents in orphanages.This study uses a quantitative approach. Subjects were determined through a saturation sampling technique consistingof 100 teenagers at an orphanage in Malang City. The research instrument uses The Gratitude Questionnaire-SixItemForm (GQ-6), the Heartland forgiveness scale and the Indonesian version of The PERMA-Profiler scale. Mediationanalysis using Process model 4 by Hayes. The results show that gratitude has a positive and significant relationship tohappiness. The results of this study also prove that forgiveness is able to mediate the relationship between gratitude andhappiness with a value.The conclusion from the results of this study forgiveness can be a mediator of the relationshipbetween gratitude and happiness in adolescents in orphanages