Optimisme dan religiusitas sebagai prediktor subjective well-being mahasiswa tingkat pertama

Abstract

: First year undergraduete students need high subjective well-being to reduce the negative emotions they feel. This research aims to study the effect of optimism and religiosity on subjective well-being among first year undergraduete students. Having correlational quantitative design, this research involving 250 first year students at three Bojonegoro universities as a sample which is taken by quota sampling technique. There are four instruments used, namely satisfaction with life scale (SWLS), scale of positive and negative experiences (SPANE), life orientation test-revised (LOT-R) and Centrality Religiosity Scale (CRS). Data were analyzed using multiple linear regression. The result shows that partially optimism and religiosity have a significant effect on subjective well-being. Besides, both optimism and religiosity contribute forming subjective well-being. Contribution of the two variables shows that other variables can be used for further research.