Self-injury behavior is a behavior that can cause or potentially cause redness, bruising, or injuries to body parts. Some of the children who perform such behavior are children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Children with ASD perform self-injury to seek attention, avoid things they dislike, to...

Anger often serves as a defense mechanism when handling conflict. It can also occur as part of the pathology of physical illness, and someone who has not been able to accept disfiguring symptoms such as alopecia may exhibit aggressive behavior. For the current research subject, alopecia led to bullying...

This study aims to observe the effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principle to overcome a selective eating problem in a 7-year-old girl. Using a quasiexperimental design with single case subject (n = 1), the intervention for the one participant was the Yuk Makan! intervention program,...

Studies on normal children’s and adolescents’ use of intervention techniques to reduce screen media usage have recently gained much attention. However, studies on screen time reduction intervention in children with developmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), have been scarce. Compared...

Various problems can arise when individuals interact with individuals with disabilities, especially when one of them is deaf. Being deaf and having hearing loss are conditions in which the individual loses hearing function completely or partially. Generally, the problem faced by an individual when interacting...

This research investigated the reduction of aggressive responses in an adolescent with borderline intelligence through the implementation of anger management intervention using a cognitive behavioral approach. The participant in this research was a thirteen-year-old girl who has difficulty in managing...

Past research has shown that orphaned adolescents who live in Indonesian orphanages are at a higher risk of experiencing various psychological disorders. In fact, parents (especially single mothers) leave their children in the orphanages because they are not able to provide adequate food, shelter, and...

The current research focuses on the antisocial behaviors which lead to juvenile delinquency. The current study looks at young adults in Kuala Lumpur and their perceptions of the typical characteristics of conduct disorders, substance abuse, and thought and attention problems commonly found among juvenile...

Metacognition is the knowledge a person has of his or her thinking and of things related to that thinking process (Flavell, 1979). Children with metacognitive awareness have better self-management and time and activity management (Brown & Smiley, 1978; Schraw & Dennison, 1994). Parents’ beliefs and behavior...

The aims of this research are to investigate the effectiveness of positive reinforcement to improve discipline behavior in a kindergarten student. The discipline behavior is important as a key success of school readiness and future academic success. Children will not be able to adapt to academic tasks...

Children with intellectual disability (ID) and poor vision show limitations in adaptive functioning. This is influenced by their intellectual impairment and poor eye function. They need support to carry out everyday activities. Therefore, mastery of self-help skills is very important for their independence....

Past studies have generated assorted results about the link between filial piety and psychological outcomes among adolescents in Asia. Reciprocal filial piety was associated with positive psychological adjustment while authoritarian filial piety was allied to negative developmental outcomes. Differences...

Data from the Social Progress Imperative 2017 Summit show that Indonesia was ranked 117 out of 128 countries in the category of intolerance. The data show that Indonesia has a poor attitude toward diversity and implicitly shows that the younger generation must face the challenge of intolerance. To teach...

Previous studies have found that delinquency is related to attachment to parents and peers as well as to resilience. Adolescents in orphanages were vulnerable to involvement in delinquency but they could be also more resilient. This study examined the relation between attachment to significant figures...

Divorce is a serious problem in Depok city. This might be due to low marital satisfaction since people with lower marital satisfaction have a higher risk of divorce. Using a qualitative approach, this paper explores which dimensions of marital satisfaction contribute the most to challenges faced by newlyweds...

According to the results of a survey conducted by Indorelawan.org, there are many emerging adults (18–29 years old) living in Indonesia. Engaging in volunteerism as an emerging adult requires overcoming many challenges, as the emerging adult phase entails many developmental tasks. If an emerging adult...

Depression and alcohol abuse are interrelated disorders. Many people use alcohol to suppress their negative emotions and feel better in stressful situation. However, alcohol abuse has negative impacts that can lead to alcohol dependence and health problems. The current study was a single-case study with...

Stressful life events brought on by the demands of academic and social life are possibly a factor engendering various negative emotional symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, and stress, in college students. Furthermore, failure to obtain positive feedback may possibly provoke self-criticism in them....

Victimization can have long-term effects, including bringing about a state of social alienation or loneliness. People with social alienation or loneliness may have difficulty initiating and maintaining social relationships, which then exacerbates the alienation and loneliness. If it is left untreated,...

This research aims to reduce caregiver strain in mothers who care for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study was conducted based on the high caregiver strain experienced by mothers in the caregiving process. Such strain affects not only the mother’s psychological well-being but also...

Many studies have indicated that behavior modification is effective in treating eating problems in children. However, only a few of these studies have focused on the implementation of a behavior modification approach in treating selective eating and food neophobia disorder in toddlers. The purpose of...

Studies have shown that heart disease affects an individual’s health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Two factors have been found to influence HRQoL: spiritual well-being and illness perception. Based on the literature review, spiritual well-being affects how patients evaluate their illness, which then...

Academic performance is often considered as a benchmark of student success in adjusting to college life. Nevertheless, students also face various problems in their life that will indirectly affect their academic performance. One of the problems that could be an obstacle to achieving optimum academic...

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic illness characterized by pain that spreads throughout the body, accompanied by other symptoms. In general, fibromyalgia sufferers experience fatigue, mood disorders, dizziness, sleep disturbances, and difficulty in concentrating. Other symptoms are also often found in people...

Similar to other anxiety disorders, reducing the intensity and the emersion of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) symptoms of the client is somewhat necessary before managing the primary resource of the disorder. However, an undeniable circumstance is that the client experienced a stuck point where they...

Depression is one of the most common mental disorders worldwide. Despite the bulk of literature on effective treatments for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) that has been published, the discussion regarding treatment for depression related to involvement in radical organizations has remained sparse in...

Charles “Buddy” Bolden's schizophrenia forced him to play his cornet through improvisation. From that, a new genre of music was born in 1917, known today as jazz. Tom Harrell, a well-known and award-winning jazz musician in the 1970s, also had schizophrenia. Speculations arose about how schizophrenia...

Previous studies in the West have found that gender impacts upon religiousness. However, religiousness is also affected by culture, and several studies in Indonesia found no gender effect. This study investigates whether there is a gender effect on another aspect of religion, called religious and spiritual...

Personal epistemology refers to personal theories of knowledge and how knowledge is justified. The trajectory of intellectual and moral development proceeds in three major stages. Firstly, simplistic or black and white thinking; secondly, relativistic thinking which considers different perspectives as...

People suffering from schizophrenia are limited in daily function and working ability, thus making them unproductive and requiring assistance to meet their daily needs. The assistance is usually provided by an informal caregiver. Living with a person with schizophrenia is very stressful and can lead...

The main objective of the recent study was to explore the association between parents’ marital status and psychological distress in college student. The sample consisted of 1024 students from various colleges in Indonesia (297 men and 727 women). Psychological distress was measured by the Bahasa Indonesia...

Psychological ambiguous loss (PAL) affects varied populations including the spousal caregivers of people who suffer from chronic mental disorders. Anxiety disorders (AD) represent a common and chronic mental disorder that exerts significant impact on patients as well as their spousal caregivers. To date,...

Breast cancer is the most common chronic disease among Indonesian women. During treatment, patients require assistance with carrying out daily activities. Family members, as the basic unit, usually become caregivers for patients with breast cancer. As a caregiver, a family member must sometimes manage...

The manner in which a family functions in its daily activities becomes vital when family units are required to handle certain serious situations such as a member being diagnosed and treated for cervical cancer. Both patients and the family members who provide care for them can experience stress in such...

Boredom has been shown to be associated with a variety of untoward individual subjective feelings including worthlessness, having nothing to do, feeling that time is going slowly, dissatisfaction, hopelessness, fretfulness, stress and feeling trapped. These feelings can be caused by situations outside...

Posttraumatic growth (PTG) refers to the occurrence of positive psychological changes following a traumatic event. The Holocaust was one of the most traumatic events in modern civilization, yet many Holocaust survivors have found meaning even in this painful experience, and their search for and discovery...

East Jakarta, as an administrative city within Jakarta, suffers from increasing number of low-income communities along with unhealthy characteristics that may lead to future problems for residents, such as poor sanitation, lack of education, and low awareness of health and hygiene. East Jakarta is the...

Primary insomnia is a mental health problem that is often reported due to the combination of either difficulty in falling asleep or maintaining sleep. It is known that people with primary insomnia experience an increased arousal of physiological, cognitive or emotional process, combined with negative...

In Indonesia, following stroke, coronary heart disease is the highest cause of mortality at all ages, approximately 12.9%. Treatment recommendations for cardiac disease include medication and lifestyle changes that need close patient adherence. Non-adherence is likely to worsen patient conditions, yet...

A dietary habit online survey in July 2017 revealed that more than half the participants ate when they experienced negative emotions. Emotional eating is overeating or binge eating in response to a negative mood, in particular, anger, sadness, and anxiety. Individuals with this condition eat to alleviate...

Body dissatisfaction is a problem that disrupts various areas of an individual's life and causes psychological effects that may lead to malfunction in some areas of life. Body dissatisfaction itself is a trajectory that begins in adolescence and peaks in early adulthood. Emerging adulthood is typically...

Perceived Social Support and Romantic Relationship Quality: Better Wingman, Parent or Friend?

Suicide phenomenon among young generation has become a leading cause of death especially among adolescents. In Asian countries, suicidal rate is at an alarming state in which it has contributed around 60% of the world suicide cases. In order to prevent suicidal behavior, suicidal ideation need to be...

Problem-based learning (PBL) is an important practice that provides suitable learning environments for learners through which they acquire complex problem-solving skills (PSS) by working with real-life problem situations (Efendioglu, 2015). Problems push people to think creatively, efficiently, and effectively....

This research assesses parents’ attitude towards children with special needs based on the availability of information regarding inclusive preschool education programs. The research was conducted with 268 parents of pre-kindergarten children from inclusive preschools in Jakarta and Depok. Of these, 118...

To compete in the industrial revolution 4.0 era, a country must have qualified human resources. While the intelligence quotient (IQ) has been commonly used as a benchmark for the quality of human resources, according to Peter Drucker (2005), the quality of human resources in a country cannot only be...

Gifted students have enormous potential that needs to be nurtured. Additionally, gifted students also have special needs in the academic field that must be met to optimally develop their potential. The teacher holds the most important role in developing this potential. Academic performance is strongly...

This study investigated the relationship between the preschool teacher personality traits determined using Costa-McCrae’s Five Factor Model of Personality and the individual attitude toward inclusive education, and also examined whether this attitude was affected by teaching experience and professional...

Improving parents’ positive attitudes towards students with disabilities is the first step in increasing their role in inclusive education. The SERASI (Sekolah Ramah Inklusi) intervention program was designed to improve the attitudes of parents of general education students towards students with disabilities...

Implementing inclusive education requires not only facilities and physical support but also human resources, in this case pre-service teachers. Pre-service teachers, who come from different educational backgrounds, are one of the most important components in implementing inclusive education due to their...

This study investigated the differences between the parental attitudes of regular students toward students with special needs in inclusive and non-inclusive kindergartens. The researchers explored whether variable demographic characteristics such as gender, level of education, and experiences of interacting...

Across Indonesia, in recent times, many early childhood education institutions have embraced inclusive policies in education. Inclusive education systems encourage the acceptance of children with special needs. The sense of being accepted enables children with special needs to feel like they are not...

Attitude is a disposition to respond favorably or unfavorably to an object, person, institution, or event. Someone’s attitude could be inferred from her or his knowledge, affect, or conation toward objects, persons, institutions, or events. The aim of this study is to examine pre-service and in-service...

Psychological stress is a state where a person’s circumstances are seemingly beyond the person’s ability to handle and threatens the well-being of self or others. The current research focuses on student stress. The participant reported stress symptoms which were affecting her ability to maintain focus...

This research aims at investigating the effectiveness of the Sekolah Ramah Inklusi (SERASI) intervention program to promote regular students’ positive attitude toward students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) in primary inclusive school. SERASI is based on the Triandis model of attitudes, which includes...

This quasi-experimental study aimed to examine the efficacy of the Sekolah Ramah Inklusi (SERASI) training program in improving the attitudes of teachers towards to inclusive education. The SERASI training program was developed for primary teachers in inclusive schools (n=19). This intervention comprised...

The present study aims to determine the influence of the gender practices and parenting styles of teachers on the manner in which gifted girls face adversity. Gifted girls (n=64) in grades 7 and 8 formed the participants for this investigation. The adversity questionnaire, the gender practice questionnaire,...

Entering university is a life transition for young adults who have to relocate away from their homes as well as deal with a wide range of problems and challenges in their new environment. This is especially the case for first-year undergraduate students. Past studies have found that perceived attachment...

This study aimed to understand the general perception of the term ‘school climate’ as well as its specific dimesions using Randolph, Kangas & Ruokamo’s (2009) model as its theoretical basis. The NJSCS-MSHS scale (New Jersey School Climate Survey Middle - High School Students in 2014) was employed by...

In 2015, the violence-free school climate policy of Permedikbud RI No. 82/2015 was issued by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. This policy requires schools to provide a violence-free school climate so that school is an ideal place for nurturing peace and social harmony and a safe place...

Students with borderline intellectual functioning (BIF) have below average cognitive abilities but are above the classification for intellectual disability. Generally, these students have low academic skills such as difficulties in comprehending reading material. Using a single-case study design, this...

Persons with disabilities are frequently underestimated because of their impairments. However, they have the same potential abilities as non-disabled people. One such potential is participating in physical activities, such as sports. Sport is not only a leisure activity for people with disabilities;...

Bullying is a problem that often occurs in school communities. One factor that contributes to the continuance of bullying is the number of passive witnesses to the bullying who stand by and do nothing to prevent it or to help the victim. Decreased pro-social behavior in bystanders has been correlated...

This study examined the mediating role of perceived organizational justice (procedural, interpersonal, and distributive justice) dimensions in explaining the association between basic psychological needs (need for autonomy, competence, and relatedness), compensation, and counterproductive work behavior...

The study aimed to explore the relationship between perceived organizational support and readiness for change mediated by affective commitment. The empirical data was collected from 144 non-probability convenient samples of the government employees from various levels and positions. Readiness for change...

Previous studies have found little indication of what moderates the magnitude of the relationship between proactive personality and employee creativity. This study investigates the mediating role of voice behavior in the relationship between proactive personality and employee creativity, using a theoretical...

This paper presents a model on how the degree of fit between a person and a work environment within the six areas of work life—including workload, control, reward, community, fairness, and values—determines the extent to which the employee experiences what is described as engagement and burnout. A sample...

It is crucial to study the factors affecting employee’s turnover intentions to lessen the turnover rate that affects companies, groups, and individuals. Although organizational mobility preferences could explain employee’s turnover intentions in an organization, a limited number of studies that can explain...

Employee creativity is needed in this ever-changing environment, especially in profit-making companies. To stand out among competitors, proactivity and creativity are essential for marketing employees to attain top performance. The literature has found inconsistent results regarding the relationship...

This study investigated mediating effects of organizational embeddedness’s dimensions (fit, links, and sacrifice) in the relation between perceived career opportunity (PCO) and turnover intention. Using resource theory, the study argues that individuals with high PCO would feel they fit into an organization...

This study developed an application for the job-demands-resources (JD-R) model of work engagement to test the moderating effects of quantitative workload on the relationship between job autonomy and work engagement in millennials. A cross-sectional study design was employed on 145 millennial employees...

This study shows the effect of perceived organizational virtuousness on work engagement. Based on social identity theory, the researchers hypothesize that organizational identification mediates the relationship between perceived organizational virtuousness and work engagement. This study analyzes data...

Background. Divergent and convergent creative tasks have reciprocal relationships with the affective experience of the individuals participating in the tasks. Previous studies have affirmed that divergent thinking tends to increase positive affect and convergent thinking tends to increase negative affect....

The relationship between affect and creative performance in a practical group project environment is poorly understood. The role of leadership in creativity is also often neglected. The present study examines how the affective aspects of group members and emergent leadership influence the creative group...

This study examined the potential influence of knowledge sharing on team effectiveness with virtual team trust as a moderating variable. Over the last five years, the growth of the internet has been significant in Indonesia, and most people currently have access to and are regularly using this technology....

With changing times come technological changes. Not only civil society but also military organizations experience the effects. The Indonesian Air Force is a military organization that requires technology to quickly anticipate changes that occur. This study aims to explore the influence of organizational...

Innovation plays the main role in organizational survival in the globalized era of technology and information exchange. Innovation can only be achieved when employees are able to engage in innovative work behavior. In addition, the workplace leader is known to occupy an important role in the formation...

Millennials’ domination of the workplace has resulted in increasing attention to the issue of engagement. Leaders need to enhance their understanding of leadership empowerment behavior as a means to increase employee engagement. Psychological empowerment encompasses a set of conditions necessary for...

Work-life balance is receiving increasing attention from researchers and organizations, especially policy makers looking to improve employees’ productivity. With the changing work culture and flexible working arrangements, employees are more focused on both work and nonwork matters instead of only having...

Stress is something that cannot be avoided, especially stress related to one’s work. Employees who experience job stress have been found to be less motivated and healthy, and, thus, less productive at work. The teachers and operational staff at the HIJ School confirmed that they felt job stress due to...

One of the goals of higher education institutions is to develop competent human resources. Supporting this aim requires contributions and involvement by lecturers and employees (academic staff) within the scope of the institution. This study examined the role of psychological capital in the relationship...

Currently, the workforce is dominated by generation X and generation Y. Generation Y or the millennial generation will dominate the workforce in the next few years. Changes in the social environment can exert an impact on the changing value systems that exist in each generation. Such modifications cause...

Enterprises are challenged to be an effective, efficient, and powerful organization that can sustain challenges in the competitive world. Many variables play an essential role in making this happen, two of which are leadership and people. The aims of this study are to examine the link between the position...

Leadership is an important factor influencing employee creativity. Previous studies have investigated the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) theory in relation to employee creativity and have found it to yield inconsistent results indicating the occurrence of a mediator between the variables. The present study...

The primary objective of this research was the development of a scale to measure perceived risk among Go-Jek service (Go-Ride and Go-Car) customers. Non-probability sampling (convenience sampling) was used to select 145 participants (30 men, 115 women) from the population. All participants were Go-Jek...

When an accident happens, eyewitnesses become important so that the police get a clear description of the case. Unfortunately, eyewitness testimony is easily corrupted with false memory errors. This study examined the effects of word type and gender on the formation of false memories in the context of...

Psychology has directed much of its attention to repairing the damage within certain disease models and has therefore neglected to consider the effects that a fulfilled individual can have on the prevention of pathologies. It has been observed that high levels of well-being, or flourishing, can act as...

The Chinese-Indonesian ethnic minority is one of the minorities in Indonesia with a long time history of being treated differently, for example the Kerusuhan 1998 (the 1998 riot). Because of this riot, this ethnic minority experienced trauma, held negative stereotypes against the majority, and now tend...

There is a difference between how males and females use language. However, there are only a limited number of research comparisons of emotion word production between females and males. This study aims to identify the comparison of emotion word production among females and males using Plutchik’s emotion...

Future orientation is a cognitive construct that explains the future orientation of individuals, especially the younger generation, to anticipate general events. Because education is responsible for the foundation of a sustainable future in a society, government and society need to prepare their younger...

Religiousness has been shown to have a positive effect on both physical and mental health. However, several studies found that religiousness can be linked to religious and spiritual struggles that have negative effects on physical and mental health. The purpose of this study is to explore the effect...