Indonesia’s long-desired quality education has not yet attained as the national quality indicators consistently show students’ low achievement, as the result of their poor understanding of school subjects. It happens because of the frequent use of rote learning strategy, instead of deep level of cognitive...

The objective of this study is to describe the substance of the rumination of breast cancer survivors experiencing post-traumatic growth during the stages of pre-diagnosis, living with cancer, living through cancer and living beyond cancer. The research used a qualitative approach with a phenomenological...

Caffeine, which contains a psychoactive substance that has a stimulating effect, plays a part in societal lifestyle, as well as being part of college students’ lifestyle. College students often consume caffeine during the night and morning to help them improve their attention and performance in doing...

Previous studies found inconsistent results on the relationship between job insecurity and impression management. This study aims to investigate the moderating effect of self-monitoring on the relationship between job insecurity and impression management. Drawing on the job adaptation and self-monitoring...

This study aims to investigate whether any correlation between friendship quality and depression among high school students in Jakarta. Friendship Quality Scale (FQS) and Hopkins Symptom Checklist 25 (HSCL-25) are used to measure friendship quality and psychological distress in the form of depressive...

This study objective was to examine factors that potentially influenced university students’ attitude toward smoking prohibition in campus by improving the effectiveness of smoking policy. These altitudes are considered as important moderator in the process of adoption and compliance of smoking prohibition...

In early adolescence, children experience significant changes in several aspects of their lives, including changes in social relationship, whether in relationship with family or friends. Those changes may cause adolescents to encounter adaptation problems. Adolescents need a positive relational self-esteem...

This study aims to examine the role of social support as a predictor of suicide ideation in Gunung Kidul, a resident with the highest suicide rate in Indonesian high school students. Previous research shows links between perceived social support and suicide ideation, but little is known if the relation...

Generation Ys are known as a lazy, demanding, and ungrateful generation, especially at work (Alch, 2006). Generation Ys are also seen as job-hoppers, needy, and deluded narcissistic (Gani, 2016). However, those stereotypes are not necessarily true. When asked, those young people said that they wanted...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of negative celebrity publicity and celebrity identification on consumers' purchase intention. The negative celebrity publicity used in this study is a controversial news article about a celebrity who endorses a fictitious product. The consumers' level...

Mathematical achievement of the students in Indonesia is low and it can be seen in PISA and TIMSS. Mathematics is one of the subjects that require higher order thinking skills, such as metacognition. This research was conducted to find out the correlation between attitudes toward mathematics and metacognitive...

This research aims to study the effect of transformational leadership and psychological capital (PsyCap) on work engagement. The idea of this research derived from the phenomena in a startup company in which it has high turnover. To address this problem, one possible solution needs to be taken is by...

This study investigated children‟s resource distribution decisions based upon photographs of unfamiliar children that differed in race and accent. Photographs were presented to children with accompanying audio. Seventy-six White 5- to 12-year-old children were given three coins to distribute to pairs...

This study was conducted to find the correlation between sibling relationship and career adaptability on 9th grade students. The participants were 291 students from two public junior high schools in Depok and Jakarta respectively. Sibling relationship was measured using Riggio’s Lifespan Sibling Relationship...

This study aimed to prove whether work-family conflict (work interfering with family/WIF and family interfering with work/FIW) negatively related to job satisfaction and whether family supportive supervisor behavior as a moderator, could weaken the negative relationship between work-family conflict (WIF...

This case study aimed to describe the illness perception, medical and traditional treatment belief in breast cancer patients. Traditional treatment referred to health practices beyond medical treatment. Five breast cancer patients were recruited from an online survey, cancer community and traditional...

In this post-millennial era, different generations have different values and ways of living. Millennials most notably tend to work less than older generations do. This degradation that happens in the millennial age motivated the researchers to acquire indepth portrayal about how academic perfectionism...

This research aimed to find the correlation between academic buoyancy and career adaptability in 9th-grade students. In Indonesia, 9th grade students are about to face a career transition as they soon will be graduated and enter the high school. During this transition, students are expected to have prepared...

Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms in the world. In Indonesia, Instagram has more than 22 million monthly active users. However, its use may increase depressive symptoms due to negative social interaction, particularly social comparison. We hypothesized that social comparison...

The empty nest phase is a phenomenon occurs when the child begins to run their independent life. Empty nest syndrome refers to feelings of loss or grief experienced by parents, mostly mothers since most of her time spent by parenting. A good adjustment is highly recommended to the parents, especially...

This study is a replication of Dunn and Doria’s (2010) research, which intends to see the effect of mate-copying tendencies among young adult women in perceiving the level of physical attractiveness of the opposite sex. Mate-copying tendencies can emerge in various forms, one of which is through simulated...

This study was conducted to examine the relationship between extraversion with the dimensions of boundaryless career attitudes, boundaryless mindset and organizational mobility preferences on Millennial employees. This is a correlational study that used the survey as the data gathering method. Extraversion...

This research was conducted to study the correlation between assertiveness and empathy with social adjustment of adolescents in a social home of South Jakarta. Social adjustments include real appearances, adaptation to groups, social attitudes, and personal satisfaction. Assertiveness involves the ability...

This study aims to find out the comparison of celebrity credibility and corporate credibility toward consumer’s purchase intention of airlines ticket. The design of this study 2x2 between subjects factorial design (high vs low endorser credibility and high vs low corporate credibility). Participants...

Psychological distress is known as one of the most common mental health problems among adolescents which are manifested in depression and anxiety symptoms. There are several factors that contribute to the emerging symptoms of mental health problems. For adolescents, one of the most important contributing...

This study has a purpose to understand the effect of passionate love on the belief in free will and determinism and to observe the interaction effect of second-order volition in moderating the relationship between passionate love with belief in free will and belief in determinism. Passionate love in...

The aims of this study were to examine whether purchase intention based on online consumer review was higher than based on micro-celebrity endorsement on Instagram and whether purchase intention based on micro-celebrity review was higher than based on micro-celebrity endorsement and online consumer review...

This study aimed to examine the influence of types of celebrity endorsement and congruency celebrity with the product on purchase intention on Instagram users. This study was experimental online research with 2x2 factorial ANOVA between-subject design. Celebrity endorsement types (famous celebrity vs....

This research aimed to see the relationship between mathematics belief and the use of metacognitive strategy in 3rd-grade elementary students tasked with completing arithmetics word problem. Based on a phenomenon that Indonesian students' performance is still lower than the other countries, this study...

This research observes the construction of self-identity in a community called Wadas Kelir Creative House or Rumah Kreatif Wadas Kelir (RKWK) Purwokerto. RKWK is a community focusing on children’s creativity development particularly in literacy area. Reasoning and realization of children creativity are...

This research aims to find the correlation between narcissism and selfie-posting behavior on Instagram among Millennials. Millennials, those who were born between 1982 and 2004, known to be more selfish and low in empathy compared to the previous generation (Firestone, 2015) and they post their selfies...

Emotional distress caused by heartbreak can lead one to negative effects such as an increase of physical illness risks and stress-related diseases. Confiding in others about upsetting experiences such as heartbreak can be one of many ways to help one feel better, but not all are comfortable in sharing...

The arrival of the internet in addition brings positive impacts such as facilitate communication. However, it also brings negative impacts. One of the negative impact brought by the technological development is the phenomenon called internet addiction that has been widely studied. This study aims to...

This study was conducted to examine the correlation between father involvement and sociosexuality among emerging adults. Father involvement defined as the extent to which father’s participation in all aspects of a child’s life (Finley & Schwartz, 2004). Meanwhile, sociosexuality defined as individual...

College students are prone to psychological distress due to their own characteristics. Numerous experience happened around these population, such as academic pressure, love life problems, family issues and so on. College students are emerging adults that most likely doing things to explore many aspects...

This study was conducted to identify the relationship between self-esteem and emotional intelligence among students in a public higher learning institution in Kuala Lumpur. The respondents were 100 college students randomly selected from six faculties in the university. The instruments used for the study...

Many people with mental illnesses have faced, or are facing the burdened impact the stigma has acted on them. Needless to say, mental health stigma held by society is playing its role as a barrier that prevents many people from actively seeking professional mental help (Corrigan, 2004). Researcher then...

The increasing number of non-profit organizations followed by the needs of having committed members and also the weaknesses in the existing instruments of organizational commitment encourages the development of a Non-Profit Organizational Commitment Scale (NPOCS). NPOCS was developed based on Three-Component...

An assignment has become a familiar thing for students, and it is often given with deadline. For some students, the deadline is perceived as pressure. However, some other students claim that the deadline existence pushes them to come up with more ideas. According to Guilford's theory, these more ideas...

The study aimed to investigate the mediating effect of problem-focused coping on the relationship between job insecurity and impression management. Drawing on Transactional Stress Theory to explain the mediation model, we argued that perceived job insecurity would activate individual's problem-focused...

Adolescents as students spend their times more in school, so interaction with people in school could affect their socio-emotional development. In achieving academic achievement, the teacher has a significant role for them. Teacher gives expectation based on students' behavior and attitude in class. Based...

One of the fundamental sciences to be learned is mathematics. In Indonesia, students learn mathematics even from preschool up to higher education. Nevertheless, based on the international studies, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Trends in International Mathematics and...

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between perceived father involvement and early adolescent’s subjective well-being. Participant in this research were 162 early adolescents 12-15 years old. Nurturant fathering Scale (NFS) dan Father Involvement Scale Reported (FIS-R) by Finley...

Based on previous research and survey, women (especially mothers) generally have lower job satisfaction than men (especially fathers). We suspect work-family conflict to be the main cause of this phenomenon. Based on previous studies, we also propose psychological capital as potential buffer to reduce...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of moral disengagement (professor and student), perceived opportunity, culture (collectivism-individualism), and religiosity (organizational religiosity, non-organizational religiosity, and intrinsic religiosity) on academic dishonesty in college student. The...

The aim of the study is to examine the effect of stigma towards family functioning on people living with HIV/AIDS in the daily life context. This study especially tries to examine how stigma can affect the effectiveness of family functioning in people living with HIV/AIDS when they deal with the problem...

Queueing is an act of civility that exists in all parts of the world, particularly in the urban environment. This study looks at the queueing behaviour of commuter line passengers who are purchasing a ticket from a ticket booth in Manggarai Train Station, Jakarta, Indonesia. The behaviour indicated whether...

This research was conducted to find the relationship between resilience and friendship quality among late adolescents. Resilience is the manifestation of individual quality or the ability to cope and survive adversity or change. Friendship quality is an individual judgment of the degree to which a friend...

This study aims to describe and identify shame and guilty emotions among older generation of Batak Toba people as compared to the younger generation. Fifty participants from each of the older generation and the younger generation were asked to complete Test of Self-Conscious Affect 3 (TOSCA-3). In addition,...

This paper investigated the effectiveness of delivering Stepping Stones Triple P (SSTP), a parenting intervention program, in special education settings and by education professionals to positively influence the potential of families of children with a disability. Questionnaire responses from 216 parents...

The study aimed to assess peer acceptance, parent-adolescent communication, and religious orientation as predictors of sexual identity among adolescent girls in Jakarta. Participants were adolescent girls of 14 to 17 years (n=240). Sexual identity was measured using De Cecco-Shively Social Sex-Role Inventory...

The aim of the study is to examine whether gadget addiction influences adolescent’s family functioning and its dimensions. Data were collected from 226 adolescents aged 12-18 years old. We used Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version (SAS-SV) developed by Kwon et al. (2013) to measure gadget addiction...

Dating violence is a form of aggressive behavior that is often shown as a form of problem-solving by adolescents when they conflict with their partner. However, such behavior can be prevented by parent involvement role, such as father involvement. Past studies have suggested that father involvement was...

This study was conducted to determine the family functioning as a predictor for internalizing problems on adolescents who experience bullying. In addition, this study aims to see the dimensions of family functioning that contribute to internalizing problem. The internalizing problem was measured using...