HUBUNGAN ANTARA SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING DENGAN TINGKAT KECEMASAN LANSIA DI POSYANDU LANSIA
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING AND ANXIETY LEVELS OF THE ELDERLY IN THE ELDERLY POSYANDU
Masa tua merupakan masa akhir dari proses perkembangan manusia yang dimulai dari usia 60 tahun hingga akhir hayat. Masalah psikososial yang sering dialami oleh lansia adalah kecemasan umum yang disebabkan oleh berbagai hal. Pada masa lansia, subjective well-being penting dimiliki untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan hidup. Memperhatikan masalah-masalah yang dialami lansia, maka di Indonesia mengupayakan peningkatan kesejahteraan lansia melalui posyandu lansia.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui adanya hubungan antara subjective well-being dengan tingkat kecemasan lansia di posyandu lansia. Penelitian menggunakan metode kuantitatif. Lokasi penelitian yaitu, posyandu lansia RW 14, Desa Ngringo, Jawa tengah. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan random sampling dengan jumlah sampel 126 orang. Pengumpulan data berupa kuesioner berbentuk skala likert. Alat ukur yang digunakan adalah skala The Modified BBC Subjective well-being (BBC-SWB) dan skala Geriatric Anxiety Scale (GAS). Teknik analisis menggunakan korelasi pearson product moment. Hasil analisis data menunjukan data berdistribusi normal, kedua variabel linear dengan nilai signifikansi 0.001, dan kedua variabel berbanding terbalik yang ditunjukan dengan hasil pearson correlation negatif (-).
Kesimpulan lansia memiliki tingkat subjective well-being yang tinggi dan tidak memiliki kecemasan yang berarti dan hubungan kedua variabel bersifat negatif. Artinya bila subjective well-being tinggi maka kecemasan lansia rendah, dan apabila subjective well-being rendah maka kecemasan lansia tinggi.
Old age is the final period of the human development process which starts from the age of 60 years to the end of life. Psychosocial problems that are often experienced by the elderly are generalized anxiety caused by various things. In the elderly, subjective well-being is important to have to improve life well-being. Taking into account the problems experienced by the elderly, Indonesia seeks to improve the welfare of the elderly through the elderly posyandu.
This study aims to determine the relationship between subjective well-being and the level of anxiety of the elderly in the elderly posyandu. The research used quantitative methods. The research location is the elderly posyandu RW 14, Ngringo Village, Central Java. The sampling technique used random sampling with a total sample of 126 people. Data collection in the form of a Likert scale questionnaire. The measuring instruments used were The Modified BBC Subjective well-being (BBC-SWB) scale and the Geriatric Anxiety Scale (GAS) scale. The analysis technique used Pearson product moment correlation. The results of data analysis show that the data is normally distributed, the two variables are linear with a significance value of 0.001, and the two variables are inversely proportional as indicated by the negative pearson correlation results (-).
The conclusion is that the elderly have a high level of subjective well-being and do not have significant anxiety and the relationship between the two variables is negative. This means that if subjective well-being is high then the anxiety of the elderly is low, and the relationship between the two variables is negative.