Abstract :
Adolescents are very vulnerable to problems or conflicts that can affect their social relations
because there are some changes in the development of socioemotion in adolescence. Every
individual can control the negative emotions that arise in him, through self-abilities such as
self-compassion. By having self-compassion, adolescents are able to understand and accept
themselves as they are, do not hurt and judge themselves, and realize that challenges or
failures are part of life and it experienced by all human being. There are several factors that
can influence self-compassion, one among them is parental social support. The objective of
this study was to determine the effect of the role of parental social support towards selfcompassion
in adolescents who lived at the orphanages. The research method used was a
quantitative correlational method and used quota sampling technique. These studies involved
100 respondents orphanage adolescent with the criteria of subjects aged 11 to 20 years, still
have parents, and live in ophanage. The research instrument used was the Self-Compassion
Scale (SCS) and the scale of parental social support. The data analysis method used is a
linear regression test. The results showed that parental social support significantly affected
self-compassion (r=0.572; p=0.001<0.05).