THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VERBAL BULLYING AND CRITICAL THINKING IN HIGH SCHOOL ELEMENTARY TEACHER EDUCATION STUDENTS

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between verbal bullying and critical thinking in high school students and the degrees of students’ critical thiking based on verbal bullying. The approach of this study was corellational quantitive. This research was held at University of Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara that consist of 155 students. The sample taken randomly amount to 44 students. The instrument used is a closed questionnaire for verbal bullying and critical thinking skill test. The results showed a negative relationship verbal bullying and critical thinking skill in high school students (r = -0.315,  < 0.05). it showed that higher verbal bullying degrees, got less critical thinking and less verbal bulliyng degrees, got higher critical thinking. This research also showed that students with high verbal bullying degrees got 74,74 average score for critical thinking, students with medium verbal bullying degrees got 90,75 average score for critical thinking and students with little verbal bullying degree got 89,38 average score for critical thinking. This suggests that stop verbal bullying because it can effect for someone’s critical thinking.