Friday (11/6) Psychology Undergraduate Study Program UGM held a Research Knowledge Sharing event “Psychological Resilience of DIY’s Families: Relationships in the Family”. This event is a session to explain the results of research in the field of mental health in the family sphere.
The event starts at 13.30 WIB until 15.00 WIB. There were 30 participants in this event, all of whom came from the UGM Faculty of Psychology.
The main speaker in this event is Dr. Budi Andayani, M.A., lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and researcher from the Center for Public Mental Health. On this occasion Ani presented a result of a research entitled “Psychological Resilience of the DIY Family: Family Relationships”.
In the initial session, the event was opened by a brief presentation from the chairman of the Center for Public Mental Health (CPMH) Diana Setyawati, M.Hsc.Psy., Ph.D. on indicators of family resilience. It includes latent components of family resilience, namely physical-economic resilience, psychological resilience, and social resilience. Diana also explained the purpose and benefits of the research presented at this event.
“This study aims to formulate the DIY family resilience index,” Diana explained.
This research was conducted through three stages. In one study, researchers conducted a systematic literature review and family in-depth interviews, while in the second study, a family resilience scale was developed. Furthermore, in the third study, researchers conducted a family survey of the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY).
In the second session, Ani explained more about the second study, namely in making a family resilience scale. According to Ani, various measuring instruments about family in western literature are not necessarily in accordance with the values of the DIY community. Therefore, the team in this study tried to develop a measurement instrument that is in accordance with the values of the DIY community which has a main focus on the quality of family relationships.
This research is a collaboration between the DIY Government and the Faculty of Psychology UGM to compile the DIY Family Resilience Index in 2018. Samples were taken randomly from people who live throughout the DIY region so that they represent standardized statistical criteria. The research team also cross-checked the regional heads in each region to ensure the validity of the data.
In this study, family in-depth interviews were conducted using the focus group discussion (FGD) method. Ani explained that the FGD found three unique themes that did not appear in the systematic literature review, namely positive social life, spirituality and religiosity, and cultural norms.
“According to the DIY community, a strong family not only has strong internal strength (togetherness, communication, and intimacy), but also has a positive social life. In addition, religious and spiritual strength is strong and has behavioral control based on cultural values,” explained Ani.
At the end of her presentation, Ani explained the results of this research. There are four important aspects that show the psychological resilience of families in Indonesia, especially in DIY. The four aspects are togetherness and communication, commitment and role function, positive social life, and the last is spirituality and religiosity.
“The four aspects of family psychological resilience are summarized in the family relationship scale and the family resilience detection scale,” explained Ani.
The event went smoothly. The event closed with a question and answer session about the implications and possibilities of this research being carried out more broadly to cover other regions in Indonesia.