PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN INDONESIA: JAVANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING PERSPECTIVE

Listyati Setyo PALUPI Airlangga University, Indonesia

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Psychological well-being or sometimes called happiness is associated with mental health. Happiness has become an important goal to achieve by everyone including elderly people. The psychological wellbeing of elderly people is some- times hard to achieve because of the health and social problem that they experienced. They often feel stress of their circumstances of being old and experiencing decline in their physiological function. Not only physical problems but also socio-economic problems such as status change from the employment status to the retirement one influence their income. The stress that they experience often reduces their sense of psychological wellbeing and as a result they have a negative mental health state. Therefore, it is important to understand the psychological state of elderly people to help them avoid a negative mental health state. It is said that culture influences how people perceive something including on how they perceive happiness or psychological wellbeing. One of the psychological wellbeing perspective is the Javanese psycho- logical wellbeing perspective. Javanese psychological wellbeing perspective states that happiness is influence by their ability to recognize their own feeling and other people՚s feelings that could make them achieve rasa bebas or feeling free from conflict that could lead them to achieve happiness or a high level of psychological wellbeing. The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between pangawikan pribadi (mawas diri) and rasa bebas with their psychological wellbeing in elderly people. This research belongs to a survey research in which the samples studied are elderly Javanese people living in Surabaya, Indonesia. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling. Keywords: Psychological wellbeing, pangawikan Pribadi (Mawas Diri), rasa bebas, Javanese, Indonesia