Forgiveness, Hope, and Satisfaction With Life Among Senior High School Students Viewed From Family-related Characteristics in Indonesia

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10.2991/assehr.k.200728.040How to use a DOI?

Keywords

positive psychology, family characteristic, adolescence, collectivistic country

Abstract

This study aims to determine the differences in forgiveness, hope, and satisfaction with life based on family- related characteristics, namely birth order, the total number of siblings, parents’ marriage status, housemate, parents’ age category, parents’ occupation nature, and parents’ education, aside from general demographic characteristics, among Indonesian senior high school age students. Participants in this study were 909 students of a vocational high school in Semarang, Indonesia obtained through cluster random sampling technique (MAge=15.93; SDAge=.909; male=60.3%; female=39.7%). Participants were asked to complete the identity including general demographic and family-related data, the Forgiveness Scale, the State Hope Scale, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Analyses were conducted using The Man-Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis Test. Spearman’s rho and descriptive statistics were also used. The results of this study indicate that family-related characteristics have more contribution to differences in hope and satisfaction with life than forgiveness. Forgiveness was only distinguished by housemate and mother’s age category. Hope was distinguished by the total number of siblings, parents’ marriage status, housemate, father’s occupation nature, and both parents’ education. Satisfaction with life was distinguished by parents’ marriage status, housemate, both parents’ occupation nature, and father’s education. This study also indicates how the dimensions of forgiveness and the subscales of state hope are specifically related and differentiated according to the family- related characteristics observed in this study. In addition, the results of this study indicate the importance of the role of gender differences, especially in the characteristics of fathers and mothers in terms of age, occupation, and education for the various differences of the variables examined in this study.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Amalia Rahmandani
AU  - Yohanis Franz La Kahija
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/28
TI  - Forgiveness, Hope, and Satisfaction With Life Among Senior High School Students Viewed From Family-related Characteristics in Indonesia
BT  - Annual International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (AICOSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 180
EP  - 185
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200728.040
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200728.040
ID  - Rahmandani2020
ER  -