Haidar Buldan Thontowi, Rr. Cahya Wulandari, Mohammad Abdul Hakim, Dr. Moordiningsih, Kwartarini Wahyu Yuniarti, Uichol Kim

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Appraisal theorists have argued that anger is elicited when important goals have been obstructed. Using an indigenous psychology approach, the current study aims to test this premise by investigating the events that account for a person’s anger among Indonesian senior high school students. Data was collected using the anger item from the Happiness open-ended questionnaire, asking about events that make the subjects’ most angry. A total of 425 senior high school students consisting of 171 males and 254 females were involved in the study. The data was analyzed using an indigenous psychological approach by analyzing the content of the open-ended responses, categorization of the responses, and cross-tabulations with the respondent’s sex. The findings suggest that Indonesian senior high school students become angry when they their trust is violated, insulted, encounter an unpleasant experience, and disturbance. Further analysis was conducted to identify variability upon male and female subjects. The chi square test that was run towards the variables “events for causing anger” and “sex” indicated a significant relationship (p < 0.03). Male respondents were most likely to become angry when encountering unpleasant experiences while females were most likely to become angry when their trust is being violated. The findings are contrary to the notions that goal obstruction is central in eliciting anger.

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Kwartarini Wahyu Yuniarti, Citra Dewi, Retno Prasetyo Ningrum, Mariyana Widiastuti, Nice Maylani Asril

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This is an integration of three studies on type 2 diabetes. In this study, diabetes was seen in relation to illness perception, stress, depression, social support, and self management. The studies conducted using quantitative approach, employing 68 participants, aged between 40–75 years old. Interviewer-administered questionnaires were used for the data collection. Sobel test was employed to examine the mediation states of the variables in the three quantitative studies, and regression analysis was then executed for hypotheses testing. Results show that self-acceptance were significantly related to depression (r:-.14, p<.05) without being mediated by perceived social support (r:-.16, p>.05). Religiosity approved to be significantly related to the stress (r:-.69, p<.05), mediated by self acceptance (r:-.36, p<.05). “Easily being tired in work, compared to the previous condition” was identified by most of the study participants as the cause of stress. It was also discovered that illness perception and coping strategies were not having a direct association with self-management in general. This study suspected that there was multicollinearity among 8 sub-components of illness perception, coping strategies and self-management. Conclusion: self-acceptance is the most important among others; and that participants, with family, need to have correct knowledge on the nature of the illness and its management.

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Arini Sasikirono Suparli, Neila Ramdhani

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Number of cyber-bullying among the Internet user has been increased. People can post unusual act and words to express their negative feeling in the cyber-world. This may membawa efek emosi tidak nyaman tidak hanya bagi orang yang disasar tetapi juga orang yang membaca. Tindakan cyber-bullying ini mungkin dilakukan oleh orang yang berada pada kondisi tertentu. Therefore this research questioned does any of moral emotions, for example shame, guilt, detached have correlation with cyber- bullying? The purpose of this study is to find out which moral emotions most play role in cyber-bullying among adolescent. A survey had been carried out to collect both emotion morale and cyber-bullying data. Eighty senior high-school students, 41 females and 30 males participated in this study. Data analyzed by using a simple correlation. It was found that shame (mean=34.23) and externalization (mean= 19.72) are higher compare with guilt (mean= 19.71), detached (mean= 19.72), alpha- pride (mean=9.31), and beta-pride (mean= 9.81). All aspects of moral emotions negatively correlated with cyber-bullying. Beta- pride is the lowest (r= .27) while externalization is the highest (r= .48) correlation with cyber-bullying. Therefore, moral emotions plays important role towards cyber-bullying. Each aspect of emotion will be discussed further.

Keywords: Emotion morales; cyber-bullying; shame; guilt; detached; beta-pride; alpha-pride.

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Neila Ramdhani, Djamaludin Ancok, Yuliardi Swasono, Peno Suryanto

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Teacher Quality Improvement (TQI) program has been designed to improve teacher competencies to make classroom climate fun and conducive for students to learn. The training program consists of three modules of competencies, namely personality, social, and pedagogy. The duration is two weeks, one week for personality and social competencies, and one week for pedagogy competency. All training modules basically aim at developing teachers’ soft skills to enable them to teach students effectively through creating fun and innovative climate.

The purpose of this study is to assess the impacts of TQI program on the perception of headmasters, teachers and students toward the way teachers running the classroom before and after joining the program. It is hypothesized that the program has influenced positively teachers’ perception about the change in the way they have to teach their students. Teachers perceive their competencies in teaching improved significantly after joining the program. Similarly, students also perceive the way their teachers teach them much better after their teachers receive competency training through the program. Meanwhile, the perception of the headmasters toward teachers’ competencies is not significantly different before and after participating in the program.

Sixty-three school headmasters, sixty-three teachers having participated in TQI program, and 189 students are the respondents of this study. A questionnaire is used to collect data concerning the perception of the teachers and headmasters, while data from the students are collected using guided interview done by research assistants. For the purpose of analysis, the data collected from three students are summed up into one score. Therefore, there are 63 school headmasters, 63 teachers and 63 groups of students.

The data is analyzed using two-way mixed model analysis of variance with pre-post for similar groups, and three different groups. The results show that there are significant interaction effects. Teachers evaluate their own behaviors much more in positive way after joining the TQI program compared to before joining the program (p<0.001). Similarly, the students evaluate the behaviors of their teachers much higher after their teacher join the Program compared to the evaluation before joining the training (p<0.001). In contrast to the perception of teachers and students, headmasters show no significant difference between pre and post training perception (p=0.99). The hypotheses are supported by data.

Keywords: Competence; Teacher; Training; Quality improvement

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Neila Ramdhani, Jeanita Deli Widjaja, Rahmawati

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Shy-socially isolated problem is still a dominating among teenagers. Some researchers found that cognitive distortion and social anxiety are predictors of this, besides the lack of opportunity to practice and involve in social relationship. This article addresses two small studies that examined two models of internet-supported brief cognitive behavior therapy (i-brief CBT) intervention, and self-management (i-SM). The former investigated the effectiveness of i-brief CBT in reducing social anxiety in teenagers. The later tested the i-SM in decreasing cognitive distortion. The main researched aimed to test the increase of Satisfaction with Life (SWL) level of the subjects participating in the Internet-Supported Brief CBT and Self-Management programs.

There were thirty-four high school students participating in the research, fifteen of whom were in the i-brief CBT and nineteen in the i-SM. Among those in the i-brief CBT, seven belonged to its experimental group while the i-SM had eight subjects placed in its experimental group. A quasi-experimental with a mixed design combined with a repeated measure applied in these researches. A mixed ANOVA that used to analyze the data showed that i-brief CBT as well as i-SM were significantly able to reduce social anxiety and cognitive distortion. In addition, both studies reported that these students were satisfied with their lives more than before joining the programs.

Keywords: Shy-socially isolated; social-anxiety; cognitive-distortion; CBT; self-managment, ;Internet; Satisfaction with life

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Galang Lufityanto, Chris Donkin, Joel Pearson

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The long-held popular notion of intuition has garnered much attention both academically and popularly. Although most people agree that there is such a phenomenon as intuition, involving emotionally charged, rapid, unconscious processes, little compelling evidence supports this notion. Here, we introduce a technique in which subliminal emotional information is presented to subjects while they make fully conscious sensory decisions. Our behavioral and physiological data, along with evidence-accumulator models, show that nonconscious emotional information can boost accuracy and confidence in a concurrent emotion-free decision task, while also speeding up response times. Moreover, these effects were contingent on the specific predictive arrangement of the nonconscious emotional valence and motion direction in the decisional stimulus. A model that simultaneously accumulates evidence from both physiological skin conductance and conscious decisional information provides an accurate description of the data. These findings support the notion that nonconscious emotions can bias concurrent nonemotional behavior—a process of intuition.

Keywords: intuition, decision making, unconscious, emotion, diffusion decision model

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Any Nurhayaty*, Supra Wimbarti*, Radianta Triatmadja**, and Thomas D. Hastjarjo*

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A tsunami disaster normally happens minutes to hours after an earthquake. Indonesia is prone to tsunamis that may be triggered by activity at plates’ boundaries surrounding the archipelago. In order to mitigate the risks and to prepare the people against the hazard a model that relates important variables influencing the degree of preparedness is required. Such model is not yet available for people with highly collectivistic culture such as Indonesia.

The study is aimed primarily at establishing a new model of preparedness against tsunami based on an existing model by accommodating a sense of community variable which is missing in the existing model. The existing model was developed based on an individualistic culture of Kodiak Alaska. In Indonesia where the culture is highly collectivistic, such a variable may play important role in the tsunami preparedness model. The model was tested on Parangtritis and Banda Aceh communities of Indonesia. The results were compared with the existing model where the sense of community variable is absent. The inter-related dependence relationships of variables in the existing model are found to be largely similar to those in the proposed models of tsunami preparedness in Indonesia with two significant differences. First the sense of community is the most important variable that affects empowerment, whilst the influence of community participation on empowerment is much lower in Indonesia. Secondly the community participation has insignificant direct influence on the preparedness within the collectivistic community. Therefore it may be concluded that direct community development through preparedness education and information without considering the sense of community within the collectivistic community is not likely to give significant results to preparedness improvement.

Keywords: tsunami, preparedness, collectivistic, sense of community, trust, intention, SEM

*Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Indonesia

**Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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Fitri Ayu Kusumaningrum, Asmadi Alsa

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This study aims to analyze and assess the achievement of learning mathematics in terms of high school students based on parental support, teacher support, and intelligence. This study was conducted with a quantitative approach using regression analysis in senior high schools in Yogyakarta. Measurement of mathematics learning achievement was generated from test scores obtained in the final test of Semester II Academic Year of 2013/2014 compiled by teachers. Parental support and teacher support variables were measured using a modified scale. This study was conducted with 145 subjects consisting students from four high schools in Yogyakarta. Schools were selected with a purposive sampling technique with consideration that the school has A-rank in accreditation. Based on the results of data analysis, it is concluded that parental support, teacher support, and intelligence can predict mathematics learning achievement simultanously . In male students, parental support, teacher support, and intelligence can not predict mathematics learning achievement, while in female students, these variable do. The study also reveals that teachers support and intelligence are significantly correlated with mathematics learning achievement, whereas parental support is not.

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Esti Hayu Purnamaningsih

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The emotions has many important functions in our life such as in relation of interpersonal communication, and health. In interpersonal communicative function aimed to signal to other information about internal state. Emotions manifests in specific cognitive, behavioural, and physiological reactions, thus closely related to health. There is wide variety of ways for individuals to regulate their emotion. In this regard, there are two kinds of emotion regulation strategy; first Antecedent-focused emotion regulation consisting of situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change and second, Response-focused emotion regulation consisting of suppression. The purpose of this research is to investigate personality factors relate with emotion regulation strategies. 339 students from Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Gadjah Mada were participating in this study and given The Big Five Personality Factors (Ramdhani, 2012, adaptation), and the modified version of the Emotion Regulation Scale was used, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (John & Gross, 2004) which measure personality and emotion regulation respectively. Using multiple regression analysis, the study indicated that personality predicts emotion regulation strategies.

Keywords: Personality, emotion regulation, strategies

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Wahyu Widhiarso

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This study expands upon previous investigations regarding factors that affect individual ability to provide accurate responses via self-report measures. Specifically, the present study investigated the relationship between cognitive ability and response inaccuracy (aberrance), the hypothesis being that response inaccuracy on personality self-report was affected by cognitive ability. Cognitive abilities were measured using the Intelligence Structure Test; IST-70 and self-report accuracy was measured using the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (CSEI). Both instruments were administered to 11th and 12nd-grade students from 14 schools in Indonesia (N = 1,674). The W-statistic, a person-fit statistic in Rasch modeling, was employed to identify inaccurate response patterns on the CSEI. Logistic regression showed significant effects for cognitive and verbal abilities on individual response accuracy on the CSEI: individuals with higher cognitive abilities were more likely to produce accurate responses than those with lower cognitive abilities. In addition, the consistency of individual response accuracy ranged from low to high depending the characteristics of the specific item. Respondents demonstrated high consistency in their ability to give accurate responses within the same measurement for similar items.

Keywords: Cognitive abilities; Person-fit statistic; Accurate responses

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