ABSTRAK Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk memperoleh gambaran mengenai hubungan antarapsychological well-being dan self-perception of aging pada lansia dengan penyakit kronis.Psychological well-being didefinisikan sebagai kesejahteraan yang terdiri dari selfacceptance,personal growth, purpose in life, positive relations with others, environmentalmastery, dan autonomy (Ryff & Keyes, 1995), sedangkan self-perception of agingmerupakan pandangan individu terhadap penuaan yang mereka alami dan persepsi sertasikap subjektif lansia terhadap penuaan mereka sendiri (Lawton, 1975 dalam Kim, Jang &Chiriboga, 2012). Banyak penelitian sebelumnya yang berasumsi bahwa self-perception ofaging merupakan salah satu prediktor dari psychological well-being. Namun, belum adapenelitian yang melihat hubungan antara keduanya pada lansia dengan penyakit kronis,khusunya di Indonesia. Penelitian dilakukan pada 110 lansia dengan penyakit kronisdengan menggunakan alat ukur Ryff’s Scale of Psychological Well-Being (RSPWB) dansub skala Attitudes Toward Own Aging dari Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale. Dalampenelitian ini ditemukan adanya hubungan positif signifikan antara psychological wellbeingdan self-perception of aging (r = 0,203) pada LoS 0,05. ABSTRACT This study aims to investigate the relationship between psychological well-being and selfperceptionof aging on elderly with chronic illness. Psychological well-being is defined aswelfare that consists of self-acceptance, personal growth, purpose in life, positive relationswith others, environmental mastery, and autonomy (Ryff & Keyes, 1995), whereas selfperceptionof aging is an individual perspective towards the aging process they experienceand the subjective attitude of elderly regarding their own aging process (Lawton, 1975 inKim, Jang & Chiriboga, 2012). Previous studies assumed self-perception of aging as oneof the predictor of psychological well-being, but there is not much of attention to see thecorrelation between them especially in Indonesian older adults with chronic illness. 110older adults with chronic illness are involved in this study using Ryff’s Scale ofPsychological Well-Being (RSPWB) and Attitudes Toward Own Aging sub scale ofPhiladelphia Geriatric Center Morale and it is found that psychological well-being andself-perception of aging correlates positively and significantly (r = .203; p<.05). |