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Spirituality, gratitude, hope and post-traumatic growth among the survivors of the 2010 eruption of Mount Merapi in Java, Indonesia

M.A. Subandi, Taufik Achmad, Hanifah Kurniati & Rizky Febri

Abstract

The province of Yogyakarta, located in the island of Java, is one of the areas in Indonesia which is vulnerable to natural disasters. This study focuses on Post Traumatic Growth (PTG) referring to the positive aspects of people’s experience, specifially during the course of the Mount Merapi eruption disaster in 2010. Some literatures suggest that aside from affecting negative emotional experiences, traumatic experiences also provide personal growth, such as positive changes in behaviour, better relationships with others, a more positive outlook and a greater appreciation of life. The purpose of this study was to understand the role of spirituality, gratitude and hope in predicting PTG. The participants of this study were 60 survivors who were living in temporary houses. There were four instruments administered in the study: (1) Post Trauma Growth Scale, (2) Spirituality Scale, (3) Gratitude Scale, (4) Hope scale. Following the administration of these instruments individually, the participants were also interviewed for qualitative data collection. The results of the multiple regression analysis showed that spirituality was the only signifiant predictor of PTG (F = 11,671, p< .01). The adjusted R square determinant coeffiient of 0.107 indicated that the effective contribution of spirituality to PTG is 10.7%. The qualitative data indicated that spirituality—through prayer, belief in God, wisdom, compassion, and patience— transformed distress experiences into a more positive impetus towards growth.

Keywords: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Post-Traumatic Growth, positive psychology, Yogyakarta-Indonesia

http://trauma.massey.ac.nz/

The “SENANG” training to increase the subjective well-being of adolescent students

Aji Cokro Dewanto, Asmadi Alsa

Abstract

The educational problems indicate that a number of senior high school students feel discomfortable while studying at school. At adolescent students, the problems are generally caused by the negative evaluation of their daily activities, particularly in the school area that appear the negative affectation. Hence, this research aimed to find out the effectiveness of the “SENANG” training program in order to increase the subjective well-being of adolescent students. This quasi experiment was conducted by using the untreated control group design with dependent pretest and posttest samples using double pretest. The technique of collecting data was done by using Subjective Well-Being of Adolescent Students Scale. The subjects of this research were 18 adolescent students at range of age 15-17 years old with subjective well-being score in medium category. The results showed that the subjective well-being of adolescent students at the experimental group was higher than the control group after the intervention. The “SENANG” training gave a contribution to the subjective well-being of adolescent students up to 78.4%.

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The Effect of Traumatic Brain Injury to the Emotional Intelligence

Noor Rochman Hadjam, Lu’luatul Chizanah

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In this study, the effect of traumatic brain injury to the emotional intelligence was examined. It was identified by testing the difference of emotional intelligence among (1) types of injury (traumatic brain injury-non traumatic brain injury), (2) injured area of brain, (3) level of traumatic brain injury, and (4) injured area and level of brain injury. The participants in this study were twenty. They were asked to fill the emotional intelligence scale designed by the researcher. The data obtained was analyzed using non-parametric approach. The results showed there was significant effect of traumatic brain injury to the emotional intelligence (Z=-2.546; p<0.05). Meanwhile, there was no significant effect found to the emotional intelligence among the injured area of brain (chi-square=1.107; p>0.05), level of brain injury (Z=-1.226; p>0.05), and both; the injured area and the level of brain injury (F=0.302; p>0.05).

Keywords: Traumatic brain injury; emotional intelligence; injured area of brain

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The role of trust in shaping mother-and-child relationship: Indigenous psychological analysis

Tri Hayuning Tyas, Kwartarini Wahyu Yuniarti, Uichol Kim

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the role trust plays in shaping the parent-child relation and the reasons why children trust and distrust their mother. A total number of 507 university students (males= 140, females=367) at the Universitas Gadjah Mada completed an open-ended questionnaire that asked how much they trust their mothers and the reason why they trust and distrust their mothers. The data was analyzed using indigenous psychological approach of analyzing the content of open-ended responses, categorization of the responses, and cross tabulating. Result from these study shows that 57.63% of participants’ trust their mothers to a great extent and 33.69% of respondents largely trust their mothers. Second, there are five main categories of reasons for trusting mothers and six main categories of reasons for distrusting their mothers that have emerged. First category focuses on mother’s personal quality such as honesty and reliability. Second, what mothers are able to bring into the life being that involved mother critical role for children surviving the world, physically, psychologically, and socially. Third, what exist between the relations counts the trust existence. Fourth, the perceived figure of mother. Fifth, the role of self in deciding when to trust. The six categories for distrust suggest the unconditional trust toward mother that indicate the strong bend of trust-relation between mother and children once it is established. It reaches to the conclusion that reasons for trusting mother is much colored by the spiritual and emotional nuance, whereas honesty and reliability, empathy, give the best, closeness and consanguinity, are factors that play quite important role in the development or establishment of trust to mother. From the reasons of trust and distrust, we learned that trust can play as the modality to consider act or to relate and as a product or result and is dynamic rather than static.

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Cultural influences upon health, affect, self-esteem and impulsiveness: An Indonesian-Swedish comparison

Lillemor Adrianson, Djamaludin Ancok, Neila Ramdhani, Trevor Archer

Abstract

The present study examines several personal attributes that distinguish the personal profiles of individuals, from Indonesian and Swedish cultures, according to self-reports of positive and negative effect, stress and energy, self-esteem, hospital anxiety and depression, dispositional optimism and health. Indonesian participants expressed both more PA and more NA than Swedish participants but less stress and a higher energy-stress quotient than the Swedish participants. Additionally, the former expressed a higher level of optimism and self-esteem, but also more depression, and less impulsiveness than the latter. Younger participants expressed less positive affect and more negative affect and impulsiveness than older participants who expressed both more stress and a higher energy stress quotient. Regression analyses indicated that PA was predicted by optimism and health whereas NA was predicted by anxiety and depression and impulsiveness and counter predicted by health. The present findings are discussed according to the notion of emotional regulation according to which individuals differ in their use of emotion regulation strategies such as reappraisal and suppression, and these individual differences have implications for affect, well-being, and social relationships.

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Why you and not me? Expressions of envy in Sweden and Indonesia

Lillemor Adrianson, Neila Ramdhani

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The purpose of the present study was to describe experience of envy in two different cultures, Indonesia and Sweden. Envy is a feeling that most people have experienced and mostly regards as shameful. The concept relates to a variety of feeling that shows its complexity. The result shows that envy had a wider meaning in the Indonesian language than in Swedish, and consisted of emotional words that were rare among the Swedish respondents. The Swedish respondents’ descriptions were, with few exceptions, connected to a malicious (ill will) meaning while it was obvious that the Javanese respondents used also the concept of benign envy (without ill will). Jealousy and envy seemed to overlap each other more in Bahasa Indonesia than in the Swedish use of the words. The latter had a distinct word for schadenfreude that was lacking in Bahasa Indonesia. For the Swedish respondents, wanting to have what another person possesses was a central element of envy, for example prosperity or competence. The Javanese respondents stressed relationships, achievements and personal characteristics’ as main causes for envy. Both the Swedish and Javanese respondents reported that a person who they knew and with whom they had an established relationship, such as a friend or a fellow student, had envied them and the causes for this were about the same as their own.

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Young Migrants and Education-to-Work Transitions in Pontianak, West Kalimantan

Wenty Marina Minza

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A majority of youth in tertiary education in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, are migrants from other districts. This paper presents results from a small survey of these migrant youth. Most of the students came from lower-middle-class families. Both lower- and lower-middle-class youth have access to tertiary education in provincial cities, even though many feel that tertiary education in provincial cities is of lower quality compared with education in Java or abroad. This paper describes how most migrant youth see Pontianak as a ‘transit’ city—a stepping stone for upward mobility through schooling and temporary work before going back to their hometown to find a stable job. These migration decisions are often affected by ethnic identity. Many youth express the ambiguity of social mobility in their transition from education to work.

Keywords: Education-to-Work Transition, Migrant Youth, Ethnic Identity, Social Mobility, Malay, Dayak, Chinese, Madurese, West Kalimantan, Lower Middle Class

http://www.tandfonline.com/

Comparing the performance of synonym and antonym tests in measuring verbal abilities

Widhiarso, W., & Haryanta

This study investigates whether synonym and antonym tests measure similar domains of verbal abilities and have comparable psychometric performance. The data used in this study are subsets of the data collected during 2013-2014 graduate admission testing at Gadjah Mada University (UGM), using three forms of the Potensi Akademik Pascasarjana (PAPS) [Graduate Academic Aptitude Test]. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that synonym and antonym tests assess similar domains of verbal abilities. A model integrating items from both tests to represent a single dimension better explained the data than a model separating the two tests into manifestations of different dimensions. High correlations among dimensions in unidimensional model showed interrelatedness for the domains of verbal abilities such as verbal knowledge, comprehension, and reasoning. Additional analysis using item-level analysis showed that antonym items tended to be more difficult than synonym items. This finding indicates that, although both tests assess similar content, responding to an antonym test requires more complex cognitive process than responding to a synonym test.

Key words: Synonyms; Antonyms; Verbal abilities; College admission test; Rasch analysis.

http://www.tpmap.org

Bangkit: The Processes of Recovery from First Episode Psychosis in Java

A. Subandi

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There is a growing literature on recovery from schizophrenia. Most studies, however, focused on outcome, with insufficient attention paid to the process of recovery. The aim of this study was to explore the process of recovery from first episode psychotic illness in a Javanese cultural setting. An ethnographic method was applied where researcher conducted a field work and followed seven participants in their natural setting. This study identified three phases of recovery process in the context of Javanese culture: Bangkit, gaining insight; Usaha, struggling to achieve recovery; and Rukun, harmonious integration with family and community integration. Recovery entails regaining insight, followed by simultaneous inward and outward efforts that reconstitute one’s inner and outer world, respectively. Participants also expressed their recovery in terms of a movement through physical space, from confinement in their own home to the wider spaces shared with family and community. Movements in physical space parallel movements in social space, where participants accomplish a social recovery. The Javanese phase of recovery found in this study is comparable to the phase of recovery identified by previous literatures in the Western context.

Keywords: Recovery, Psychosis, Ethnography, Java

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Employee Recruitment: Identifying Response Distortion on the Personality Measure

Wahyu Widhiarso, Fathul Himam

Abstract The aim of this study was to identify individuals who fake their response on personality assessments in the context of employee recruitment. In the study experiment, participants were randomly divided into two groups. The first group was instructed to complete a measure (BFI-44) honestly while the second group was instructed to complete the inventory as if they were job applicants participating in an employee recruitment. It was hoped that the second group would be induced to give fake responses. Cluster analysis and latent class analysis for a two-class constrained model was applied to and fitted to the data. The correlation between actual group (honest vs. faking) and predicted group obtained from analysis result (normal vs. unique) was moderate: values for the phi correlation using a 2×2 crosstab table yielded values from 0.02 to 0.37. The percentage of participants detected as giving fake responses ranged from 37 to 69 %.

Keywords: Faking Responses, Cluster/ Class Membership, Applicants Respondents

http://ejbo.jyu.fi