Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is a chronic illness, in which 90% of the sufferers are early adult women. They faced many difficulties which can cause depressions. People with lupus in Syamsi Dhuha Foundation show high positive affect and said that they satisfied with their lives. This research is a population research to 30 people with lupus in Syamsi Dhuha Foundation, using correlational technique. The goal is to examine the correlation between gratitude and subjective well-being of early adult women with lupus at Syamsi Dhuha Foundation. The instrument for gratitude is GRAT-R (Watkins, 2002) and for subjective well-being are SPANE (Diener, 2012), SWLS (Diener, 1987), and Domain Satisfaction Scales (Public Attitudes and Behaviours towards the Environment Omnibus Survey, 2007). The results are: 1) Strong positive correlation between gratitude and subjective well-being; 2) Twenty seven subjects who show high gratitude; and 3) Twenty one subjects report high subjective well-being.

This study aims to improve communication skills of the seventh-year students in MTs. Annur Karangjunti Kabupaten Brebes Jawa Tengah. Their low communication skills shown by unpolite interaction with the teacher, hurt others’ feelings, and passive in the class. The sample were 35 students from 177 of population. This study used group guidance service and communication skills scale. The data analysis technique used t-test. According to the test results, there was an increase in the communication skills of the students, group 1 was 25,66%, group 2 was 21,5%, and group 3 was 28,54%. In conclusion, group guidance service can influence communication skills of the seventh-year students in MTs Annur Karangjunti Kabupaten Brebes Jawa Tengah.Â

The purpose of this research is to know how significant is the influence of adversity quotient to academic achievement. This research used correlational method with causality type. Respondents of the study were 147 students of Faculty of Psychology UIN SGD Bandung year 2013. The samples were 109 people, selected by simple random sampling technique. AQ measured by a Quick Take Adversity Response Profile (ARP) scale that is modified for educational settings. This study used simple regression analysis. Based on data processing using SPSS 20th version, it was obtained sig value (0.029) < α (0.05). This value shows that H0 is rejected, so there is a significant adversity quotient influence to academic achievement. Coefficient of determination equal to 0,044, showing influence of AQ to academic achievement is 4.4%. Therefore AQ is one of the low factor that affect academic achievement.

Good romantic relationship occurs when a couple can solve their conflict in an effective way. Unfortunately, not all couples can do it, on the top of that the conflict become a violence. Eventhough the victim has been hurted many times, they still cannot leave violent relationship because of emotional bond between the victim and the perpretator, which is called as stockholm syndrome. One factor which can affect this condition is attachment style, especially insecure attachment style, such as preoccupied attachment style. Insecure attachment style can make the victim stuck with relationship which full of violence. The aim of this research was to analyze the role of preoccupied attachment style towards the tendency to experience stockholm syndrome in young adulthood women. This research used quantitative approach. 323 participants were selected using accidental sampling technique. The measurements were the preoccupied dimension from the Attachment Styles Questionnaire and the Stockholm Syndrome Scale. Regression testing showed that preoccupied attachment style had a significant role towards the tendency to experience stockholm syndrome (1.9%).

IPhone as one of the smartphone brand, is often regarded as a prestigious symbol for teenagers. In choosing goods, teenagers also pay attention to the symbolic value that they want to show. These symbols give a certain impact to their self-esteem among teenager. What about the non-iPhone user? The purpose of this study was to see the difference of self-esteem between iPhone users and non-iPhone users. The samples are the students in one of public high school at Garut. The design of this study is quantitative non-experimental with comparative method. The study compared two groups of teenagers: iPhone users (N = 25) and non-iPhone users (N = 39). All respondents filled out three questionnaires about IPhone Brand Image, Self-Esteem Questionnaire and Self-Esteem iPhone Ownership (SEiO) Questionnaire. The data obtained were tested by t-test on two groups. The results show that there are significant differences of self-esteem between two groups.

This study aims to see the current picture of recruitment in Indonesia. The research used survey method which was then analyzed thematically. Research subjects were 46 participants who worked in the field of recruitment with varied rank and seniority. The main findings related to the recruitment process are summarized based on participant responses. First, the majority of respondents argued that recruitment is currently very challenging considering on one hand the presence of less qualified candidates or even on the other hand the company does have a high enough demands. Second, given the budgetary problems, companies must adjust their recruitment strategies to their internal conditions. Finally, a recruit must have certain abilities such as target orientation, networking, negotiation, and analytic thinking. The results of this descriptive study can be used as a basis for further research and for recommendations on recruitment discussion forums. This study is limited to respondents from private companies, further research is suggested to increase the number of representative samples and develop more specific instruments.

Anxiety about English is still felt in the learner at the college level, especially in dealing with reading sources in English. This study aims to see how individual factors (self-efficacy, belief, and motivation) effect the anxiety experienced by students in learning English. Research design use correlational research involving 100 students at UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung from psychology faculty and  faculty of education and teacher training. Sampling technique is using stratified random sampling. There are four instruments used which are Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale, Children’s Self-efficacy Scale, The Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI) and motivation in learning english instrument. Data is analysed using statistic analysis of multiple regression. Results show that this each following variables which are self-efficacy, belief, and motivation has significant correlation with anxiety in learning English. Besides, there is also significant correlation between self-efficacy, belief,  motivation and anxiety in learning English. Â

Pregnancy and childbirth are the natural and normal processes experienced by every woman. In the process of pregnancy and childbirth every woman undergoes both physical and psychological changes so that women need to be prepared before entering this stage. Those who are not ready will be more likely to experience postpartum blues. This study aimed to determine the psychological factors that affect postpartum blues. The method was quantitative correlational with purposive sampling technique. Participating mothers were 6 months postpartum (n=41). The research instruments were Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), coping stress scale, social support scale, and adjustment scale. The data was analyzed by simple linear regression. The result of this study showed that from the three independent variables giving predictions the biggest influence on the emergence of postpartum blues were adjustment variable (56,3%), then coping stress (46,1%), and social support (30,2%).

High school students in the city of Bandung occupy the largest population compared to other cities in West Java, The Central Bureau of Statistic data shows an imbalance between the number of students with rough participation rate and net enrollment rate. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of peer context to the student engagement of high school students in Bandung with self-system processes as a mediator variable. The method of this research is causality correlation. The sample of 632 students were selected using Random Sampling Techniques from 8 public High Schools in Bandung. The questionnaire measured peer context, self-system processes, and student engagement, which were based on Connell's theory. Data analysis was Partial Least Square (PLS) method. Results show that there is influence of peer context on government high school student’s engagement in Bandung with self-processing system as a mediator variable. There is influence of sense of relatedness, sense of autonomy, and sense of competence on the student engagement. The student engagement of high school in Bandung is in the medium category.

Changing academic major could have negative impact on the students, such as increased fees and time for college. The intention of changing academic major is related to the mistake in choosing majors due to student’s career indecision. Career indecision is a situation where an individual is experiencing difficulties, having lack of confident in making decisions or cannot commit to college, career or work to be lived. This study aims to see the role of career indecision on the intention of changing academic major among college students. The method used in this study was associative research. Participants in this study consisted of 175 students between 18 to 26 years old who enrolled in Jakarta-Bogor-Depok-Tangerang-Bekasi, selected with accidental sampling. The result of the study indicates that the career indecision plays a 4.7% share to the intention of changing academic major. Therefore, reducing student’s career indecisions is an alternative solution to decrease the intention of changing academic major.

This research aimed to obtain a description explanation about negative automatic thoughts that appear on Bandung junior high school students who are bullied. The research also described the automatic negative thoughts that was based on factors affected by bullying (from CATS questionnaire). The research involved 1261 samples of the students of  5 junior high school in Bandung. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistic analysis. The results showed as many as 48 students belonging to students who experience the action of bullying with high frequency and as many as 333 students experience the act of bullying in the medium frequency. Then, based on the results of CATS questionnaires, about 8.3% of students, show that they had higher frequency the occurrence of negative automatic thoughts. It means they had a negative beliefs scheme and often experience helplessness in their daily lives. The factor analysis showed that social threat was the most contributive factor in generating negative automatic thoughts.

English proficiency is important because it gives a positive academic influence. English skills can be seen from the amount of vocabulary a person has. One of the creative efforts in learning to be attractive is using flash cards media. This study aims to determine whether flash cards media can improve the vocabulary of students in primary school. This research used quasi-experimental method with nonequivalent pretest-posttest control group design. The research subjects were 35 second grade students of elementary school, which were divided into two groups namely experimental group and control group. The hypothesis of this research is that there is a difference of vocabulary between experimental group and control group before and after giving flash cards media. The independent sample t-test of the gain score of the experimental group (11.7895) was higher than the control group (3.2500) with the 8,998 and sig t-counts 0.000 (p <0.01), meaning that there is significant difference between pretest-posttest experimental and control group. It shows that flash cards can improve students' English vocabulary.

SDQ (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire) is a psychological scale to screen the Strengths and Difficulties the special student, emotional and behavioral problem, and school readiness. This adaptation of SDQ aims to test the psychometric parameter:  validity, reliability and confirmatory factor analysis. The study was conducted to 153 subjects with the help of significant others in inclusive school and the center of autism at Malang. The analysis indicated 7 invalid items with reliability 0,759. The confirmatory factor analysis showed that all of factor give 54,943 % contribution to the construct of SDQ.

Sex education is the provision of information about sex that aims to reduce the potential risk of sexual behavior. This effort is still taboo in the community, so parents feel hesitant to provide teaching about sex to children. The purpose of this study is to determine the perception of parents to sex education provided to children from an early age. This research was conducted in Jambesari village, Poncokusumo, Malang by using phenomenology approach and involving 5 mothers. The results show that parents perceive sex education as taboo, vulgar and inappropriate to convey to children, thus affecting the involvement and form of education provided by parents to children. The results also show that the need for the competence of sexual education is important to be done by parents.

Individu dewasa awal memiliki dua tugas perkembangan utama, yaitu bekerja dan menikah. Kedua tugas perkembangan ini harus seimbang untuk meningkatkan psychological well-beingnya. Apabila individu tidak mampu menyeimbangkannya, maka menyebabkan stres dan ketidakbahagiaan akan terjadi bahkan dapat menurunkan psychological well-being. Salah satu pendekatan untuk meningkatkan psychological well-being adalah trait mindfulness. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis peran trait mindfulness terhadap setiap dimensi psychological well-being pada dewasa awal yang bekerja dan menikah. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah 200 individu dewasa awal dengan rentang usia 20-40 tahun, telah bekerja dan menikah, serta berdomisili di Jabodetabek. Penelitian ini menggunakan alat ukur Ryff’s Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWBS) untuk mengukur psychological well-being, dan Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) untuk mengukur trait mindfulness. Uji regresi ganda menunjukan trait mindfulness memiliki peran yang signifikan terhadap setiap dimensi psychological well-being, yaitu sebesar 35,3% pada dimensi environmental mastery, 31,7% pada dimensi purpose in life, 31,1% pada dimensi positive relation, 24% pada dimensi personal growth, 18,7% pada dimensi autonomy, dan 17,6% pada dimensi self-acceptance.Â

Happiness is the expectation for every person including teenager. However, parental divorce may have impact on teenagers’ happiness. The aim of this study is to know happiness in teenager whose parents divorced. Data for this research were obtained using qualitative method with case study design. Subject was selected using purposive sampling technique. The respondent was a male teenager with divorced parents. Data collection was carried out through interview. The results showed that the respondent had three aspects of happiness are life is pleasant, meaningful, and engaging.

Indonesia is a big country with high pluralism. Country like Indonesia requires a high tolerance attitude. This research aimed to obtain the description about tolerance in the students based on personality type. The participants were 350 UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung’s students with quantitative approach. The variables were personality type and tolerance attitude. Personality types using a scale compiled from the Big Five theory formulated from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP). Tolerance attitude was measured using the scale developed by van der Waltz. The results show that the type of personality Conscientious dominates the subject and there is no subject that has the Agreeableness type. From the four personality types, Analysis of Variance (Anova) found no significant difference in their tolerance attitudes. It seems that the majority of UIN Sunan Gunung Djati’s students have good moral values so they can tolerate the difference.

This study aims to determine the relationship between mother’s secure attachment to the readiness of prepubertal girl to face first menstruation (menarche). The participants were 74 elementary students at V and VI grade in Budi Mulia Elementary School, Seturan. This study used quantitative research method. Measuring instruments were menarche preparedness scale and secure attachment scale. Hypothesis testing was conducted using a statistical technique test of Pearson Product Moment Correlation with SPSS software. The results showed a correlation coefficient (rxy) = .305 with significance level of p=.008 (p<.01), so the hypothesis was accepted. This result indicates that there is a significant positive correlation between mother’s secure attachment to the pre-pubertal girls’ readiness to face first menstruation (menarche).

Curriculum is one of the important components in education which has a big role in determining the direction and purpose that will be reached by the academic institution. Therefore, curriculum must be designed on the basis of curriculum development principles should be noticed. One of the principles is the curriculum relevance with the employment. So, to evaluate the curriculum, including psychology faculty UIN SGD Bandung, it can be conducted by scrutinizing how far the curriculum relevance with occupation.To scrutinize how far the curriculum relevance with occupation, we can trace from alumni’s feed back. So, in this research it has been scrutinized how curriculum relevance of psychology faculty UIN SGD Bandung with the occupation taken from alumni’s view, the job appropriateness with the competence and psychology profession, and the hope of alumni to curriculum change.The data of research are processed either qualitative approach or quantitative by descriptive statistic analyzing present age calculation, and level category and also the analysis of contingency coefficient correlation test. From the result of data processing, it shows that most of alumni view that the curriculum of psychology faculty UIN SGD Bandung is still relevant with occupation. It is strengthened by the data showing the most of alumni’s job which generally is still appropriate with the psychology profession scope. It is so with being relatively fast for the alumni to get the job after graduating. It indicates that the products (graduations) of psychology faculty UIN SGD Bandung still have any competition and they are needed by the user.From correlation test result, it can be concluded that there is no respondent’s characteristic which has significant relation with their view to the curriculum relevance of psychology faculty UIN SGD Bandung with occupation. In other word, respondent’s characteristic can’t be a significant correlation to human’s view in curriculum.Although Alumni view curriculum still relevant with occupation, but all respondents still hope any change in curriculum to be more applicative and relevant with human’s need especially for occupation.    Â

Marriage in young people becomes popular among moslem in Indonesian. Unfortunately, the statistic of divorce is also increases every year. Divorce much happen among couples at the first five years of marriage. Communication is the major cause of the divorce. Developmental Psychology approach assumes that couple can built healthy communication with full of affection through confirmation, self disclosure and sexual communication. Furthermore, Islam suggests the moslem  to take Rasulullah (prophet Muhammad Saw.) as their model in the ways of his communication among his family members. The two perspectives can be developed as intervention technique to reduce the statistic of divorce in Indonesia.Â