ABSTRACT
Character-forming trought character education is an appropriate thing to do
to solve the moral corruption problem in youth. Nevertheless, in reality, the
educational and internalizing of character values is not optimal. Further study is
thus needed on effort to character education. The problem of this research is the
undefinate link between pabbajjā training and the character-forming of youth at
Vihara Bodhisatta Buddhist Center. Study needs to be conducted to describe the
relationship between pabbajjā training and the character-forming of youth which
has been carried out at Vihara Bodhisatta Buddhist Center.
This study uses a quantitative approach with ex post facto correlational
research method. The sampling method used in this research is simple random. The
participants in this study were 126 youth who practice pabbajjā at Vihara
Bodhisatta Buddhist Center between 2017 and 2019. Data was gathered using a
questionnaire that has been tested for validity and reliability. Prerequisite tests
include normality and linierity were conducted before analyze the data using
bivariate correlation. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov residual normality test yielded a
correlation coefficient (r) of 0.069 with a significance of 0.200, indicating that the
data is normally distributed.
The correlation coefficient (r) of 0.763 is larger than rtable of 0.175, and the
significance of the research hypothesis test is <.001, which is less than 0.05,
therefore H0 is rejected. It can be stated that pabbajjā training and the character-
forming of youth which has been carried out at the Bodhisatta Buddhist Center have
a strong correlation. The correlation coefficient (r) is 0.763 indicating that the
degree of association between pabbajjā training and character-forming is
substantial and positive. The coefficient of determination is 0.581, indicating that
pabbajjā training has a 58.1 % effect on the character-forming of youth who were
practicing pabbajjā at the Bodhisatta Buddhist Center. Meanwhile, 41.9 % is
affected by other character-forming variables which not been studied.