Gratitude and Life Satisfaction of Hearing Impaired College Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/acpch-18.2019.46How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Gratitude, life satisfaction, hearing impaired
- Abstract
Life satisfaction is a comprehensive assessment of feelings and attitudes about life at a specific point in time from negative to positive. Everyone often expects perfection in every aspects in life, whether it is physically, mentally or intellectually. But not all of these expectations can be realized. Some people actually had to deal with various limitations or physical disabilities such as hearing impaired. Limitations of hearing impaired peoples make the majority of them have lower life satisfaction than people who are not disability. Students who have low life satisfaction have an impact on low interpersonal success, education, and mental and physical health. The aim of this research is examining the effects of gratitude towards life satisfaction of hearing impaired college students in Center for Disability Studies & Services. GQ-6 and Life Satisfaction Scale are used in this research. Data was collected and formulated with linier regression. The result showed that gratitude gave positive impact towards life satisfaction to hearing impaired college students in Center for Disability Studies & Services, when a student with hearing impaired has good gratitude, it gave an effect on increasing his life satisfaction by 12.2%.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Afitria Rizkiana AU - Dimas Setiawan Santoso PY - 2019/03 DA - 2019/03 TI - Gratitude and Life Satisfaction of Hearing Impaired College Students BT - Proceedings of the 4th ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 186 EP - 189 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/acpch-18.2019.46 DO - 10.2991/acpch-18.2019.46 ID - Rizkiana2019/03 ER -