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The task of caregivers could potentially lead to an experience that produces negative emotions within themselves. The negative emotions will ultimately have implications for creating a subjective burden on caregivers. This study aims to determine the effect of gratitude therapy to reduce the subjective burden on cerebral palsy caregivers. Participants in this study were 3 caregivers of cerebral palsy whose children had motor skills at 3-5 GMFCS levels and had subjective burden based on the Zarit Caregiver Burden Scale (ZCBS). The experimental design uses small n single-case type A-B-A. Hypothesis testing is done quantitatively by using visual inspection technique followed by descriptive analysis. The result of this study shows a decrease of subjective burden in all participants.

Penelitian menyebutkan bahwa anak dari orang tua yang bercerai memiliki harga diri yang lebih rendah dari pada orang tua yang tidak bercerai. Terapi kebersyukuran diprediksikan dapat membantu mengubah persepsi negatif remaja tentang dirinya menjadi persepsi yang positif sehingga evaluasi dirinya menjadi baik, dengan demikian harga dirinya akan meningkat. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui keefektifan terapi kebersyukuran dengan pendekatan cognitive behavior therapy (G-CBT) untuk meningkatkan harga diri pada remaja korban perceraian. Metode pada penelitian ini adalah menggunakan kuasi eksperimen dengan desain penelitian single case A-B-A-B Penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis data secara kuantitatif dengan melihat perubahan skor hasil pengukuran berdasarkan waktu pengukuran. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa skor harga diri partisipan meningkat setelah diberikan terapi Gratitude Cognitive Behavior Therapy (G-CBT) dan pengaruh dari terapi ini masih berdampak selama 2 minggu setelah diberi perlakuan. Setelah terapi dihentikan skor harga diri tidak mengalami penurunan atau kembali seperti pada pengukuran awal.

Ayah memiliki peran dalam pengasuhan sehingga memerlukan pengetahuan serta keterampilan tentang bagaimana mengasuh anak dengan baik. Ketika ayah memiliki kualitas pengasuhan yang baik dapat mengurangi faktor risiko munculnya permasalahan dalam perkembangan anak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji efektivitas Pelatihan Fathering dalam meningkatkan kualitas pengasuhan ayah yang memiliki anak usia prasekolah (3-5 tahun). Semakin ayah terlibat dalam pengasuhan, diharapkan ayah akan semakin memahami bagaimana pengasuhan yang tepat untuk anak sehingga kualitas pengasuhannya meningkat. Pengujian efektivitas pelatihan dilakukan dengan penelitian eksperimen dengan untreated control group design with dependent pretest-posttest samples. Partisipan penelitian adalah 11 orang ayah di mana 6 orang dimasukkan ke kelompok eksperimen dan 5 orang di kelompok kontrol. Instrumen pengukuran menggunakan Skala Kualitas Pengasuhan. Analisis statistik yang digunakan adalah Mann-Whitney’s U, dilengkapi dengan analisis deskriptif terhadap hasil observasi dan lembar kerja lima orang partisipan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Pelatihan Fathering tidak dapat meningkatkan kualitas pengasuhan ayah yang memiliki anak usia prasekolah secara signifikan. Bagian diskusi mengelaborasi temuan ini.

The purpose of this research was to study the variables of religiosity, positive religious coping and negative religious coping as predictors of student’s subjective well-being. The subjects of this research were 166 college students. Their subjective well-being was measured by using the SWB-SLS Scale (Positive Affect, Negative Affect and Life Satisfaction at Campus) and the SWB-PLS (Positive Affect, Negative Affect and Personal Life Satisfaction). Religiosity Scale and Religious Coping Scale were used respectively to measure the religiosity and the positive and negative religious coping. Based on the parametric-statistic analysis with Pearson’s product-moment correlation indicated that there is a positive relationship between positive religious coping and student’s subjective well-being and a negative relationship between negative religious coping and student’s subjective well-being. However, it was not found that religiosity has relationship with student’s subjective well-being. Based on the multiple regression analysis, this research showed that the three variables can simultaneously become the predictors of student’s subjective well-being. The effective contribution of positive and negative religious coping is more significant than that of religiosity to student’s subjective well-being. Keywords: religiosity, positive religious coping, negative religious coping, subjective well being

The purpose of this study is to examine the correlation between religiousity and psychological well‐being on earthquake survivor at Yogyakarta. Several studies show that religiousity give some benefits to reach well‐being. Both of variables are measured by Psychological Well‐Being Scale and Religiousity Scale. The result shows there is positive correlation between religiousity and psychological well‐being(r=0, 505; p

The focus of this research is to identify care seeking behaviorof the family whose one of its members suffer from mental illness. The data was gathered from interview with 20 respondents who took the patient to see the doctor in Lali Jiwo mental Hospital, Pakem Yogyakarta.

In Indonesia, death from cancer increase rapidly from year to year. So it is importent to give attention and serious intervention on the problem of cancer. This Study was designed to asses the relationship between social support and depression; to identity the social-support source which contributes the most to cancer patient; an to assessed the level of depression of the cancer patients. The subjects were 51 cancer patients of the radio therapy unit of the RSUP Dr. Sardjito Yogyakarta. The results show that there is a negative correlation between social support and depression. The result also suggests that 46.15% of the subjects are depressed, although they receive high social support (the highest support comes from spouses parents, and families).

This qualitative study aims to know how the psychological dynamic of Subjective Well‐Being (SWB) of children is from divorced parents. This research involved three children from divorced parents as subject. The subjects’ ages were between 18‐21 years old. Data was collected through in‐depth interview, participative observation, and self report method. Findings indicated that there were three conditions of subjective well‐being of children from divorced parents. The first condition is the condition before the parent`s divorced, whereas the second and the third are the condition after the parent`s divorced. The first condition shows that children from divorced parents have low level of subjective well‐being before their parents divorced. It is mainly because of the parental conflict and the low level of family to spend time together which araised motional attachment. In the second condition, children from divorced parents still have low level of subjective well‐being that mainly because of the parental divorced, parental attitude that never told to their child about the divorced, and the decrease of parental attachment following the divorced. The third condition, children from divorced parents show the higher level of subjective well‐being that mainly because of the acceptance of children for the parents divorced. This acceptance leads children from divorced parents feeling positive affect and life satisfaction.