Self-compassion is a trait that helps people to withstand stressful situations. Self-compassion helps people to maintain self-regulation, to interpret the positive side of the problems, and to avoid ego depletion. The purpose of this research is to examine the indirect effect of self-compassion to ego depletion with forgiveness as a mediating variable. Forgiveness selected as a mediating variable because of its ability to play a role as a coping strategy and reduce ego depletion tendency. The researcher believes that the impact of self-compassion to ego depletion increasing if forgiveness included as a mediating variable. This research used a regression technique analysis. Data were collected on 200 students by purposive sampling technique using a self-compassion scale, ego depletion scale, and forgiveness scale. The result shows that the impact of self-compassion to ego depletion decreased without forgiveness as a mediating variable. The researcher concluded that forgiveness was effective as a mediating variable to self-compassion and ego depletion.

Social media observations indicate that adolescents who excessive adore their idol partners tend to have sexual orientation that leads to homosexuality. Women who love manga, anime, homosexual-themed novels are called fujoshi while men are called fudanshi. The purpose of this study was to find out whether idol worship rates had an effect on homosexual intense on adolescent fujoshi and fudanshi fans of Korean bands. This study is a cross sectional study of 815 adolescents fujoshi and fudanshi Korean band fans. Data was analyzed using Pearson correlation test. The results obtained from this study are idol worship show positively correlated with intense homosexuality in fujoshi and fudanshi fans of Korean bands (p <0.05). Based on the research results, it can be concluded that higher idol worship rate makes higher homosexual intents on fujoshi and fudanshi Korean band fans. We suggest that fujoshi and fudanshi should control social media in order not to become a crucial part to influence their life. This research becomes basic for further research.