Emotional Regulation in Adolescent Girls when Experiencing Menstrual Pain or Dysmenorrhea

The biological pride of young women is characterized by a standard physical mechanism of menstruation or menstruation followed by pain in the lower abdomen. The pain results in psychological symptoms such as anxiety, tension, anger, or emotion. Young women who cannot regulate their feelings properly are more likely to experience severe pain or so-called dysmenorrhea. Emotional regulation is the achievement of emotional balance performed by a person either from his attitude or behavior. This study aims to examine the regulation of emotions in young women who experience dysmenorrhea during menstruation. Assessment through aspects of emotional regulation, namely emotional regulation strategies, behaviors to achieve goals, control emotional responses, and acceptance of emotional responses. This research uses qualitative research methods with a case study approach. Data retrieval was conducted through semi-structured interviews of two primary informants and four secondary informants. Credibility using triangulation of sources and methods. Data analysis using interactive model data analysis. This study's findings are that both young women's ability to regulate their emotions during menstruation can relieve severe pain or dysmenorrhea during menstruation.

Moral Development of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic requires people to implement social distancing (activity restrictions) to anticipate the spread of Covid-19. This study aims to determine the moral development of children during the Covid-19 pandemic and to determine the role of adults in the formation of children's moral development during the pandemic. The subjects of this study amounted to 104 people who are parents or siblings who are in the same house with children in Pandemic. This study uses a quantitative approach with survey methods and data collection techniques used are questionnaires through Google Form. The survey results show that only 75% of parents or siblings of children make regulations related to social distancing, while 25% do not make regulations related to social distancing. Basically, the attitude shown by adults will have a big influence on the children moral’s reasoning about social distancing. In addition, children aged 0-5 years have not obeyed the rules made, but children aged above 5-10 years will begin to obey the rules. Meanwhile, at the age of 9 to more than 10 years, children begin to consider the purpose and consequences of social distancing rules that have been made by adults.

The Effect of Religiosity on Work Ethic on Educators

This study aimed to determine the effect of religiosity on the work ethic of the educator at the State Police School (SPN) of the Central Java Police. This research is a quantitative study with 57 educators at the State Police School (SPN) of the Central Java Police. The data collection method used in this study is to use a work ethic scale with a reliability of 0.955, a religiosity scale with a reliability of 0.906. The data analysis technique used in this study was a simple linear regression analysis technique to determine the effect of religiosity on the work ethic of the State Police School (SPN) educators of the Central Java Police. The results showed that the calculated F = 0.942 and significant value = 0.000 (p <0.05), it can be concluded that the hypothesis is accepted, there is an influence of religiosity on the work ethic of the State Police School (SPN) educators of the Central Java Police. It is also known that the coefficient of determination is 0.369, which indicates that the influence of the independent variable (religiosity) on the dependent variable (work ethic) provides an effective contribution of 36.9%.

Positive Negative Affect and Teen Pregnancy

Pregnancy is one of the important events in a woman’s life. Having a positive and planned pregnancy will impact the psychological well-being of both mother and baby. This study describes the relationship between the affect and demographics of pregnant adolescents. Respondents consisted of 92 pregnant adolescents (19.6% trimester 1, 41.3% trimester 2 and 39.1% trimester 3), with an age range of 16 to 35 years (M = 18.99, SD = 2.899). Pregnant adolescents were asked to fill in the positive and negative influence scale (PANAS). The correlation coefficient of Cronbach’s alpha for the positive influence scale is 0.845. The correlation coefficient of Cronbach’s alpha for the negative influence scale is 0.676. Researchers used Chi-Square to determine the relationship between positive and negative influences with the demographic characteristics of adolescent mothers. The results of the description of the Positive affect were related to age (Asymp. Sig. = 0.000) and gestational age (Asymp. Sig. = 0.009). In contrast, the Negative affect was related to adolescent education (Asymp. Sig. = 0.013). These results underlie the process of adaptation of adolescent mothers in undergoing a healthy and planned pregnancy.

Self-Control and Disciplined Behavior Of Students

Islamic boarding school is a religious, educational institution with its characteristics and is different from other educational institutions. Education in Islamic boarding schools includes Islamic education, da’wah, community development, and additional similar education. This research aimed to determine the relationship between Self-Control with Discipline Behavior to students memorizing the Al-Qur’an at Islamic Boarding School Darussalam Purwokerto-Indonesia. This study uses quantitative research methods. The instrument used to collect data is the Self-Control scale and the Discipline Behavior scale. The population in the study was 80 students. Researchers use the entire population, so it is called population research. The data analysis technique uses product-moment correlation. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 25.0 for Windows Program. The results of the research data show that there is a relationship between Self-Control and Discipline Behavior in students who memorize the Qur’an at Islamic Boarding School Darussalam Purwokerto-Indonesia has a correlation of 0.695 and a significance level of p<0.01. The results of data analysis show that there is a positive relationship between Self-Control and Discipline Behavior.

Building Resilient Workforce in a Challenging World: The Way Forward

The field of Psychology which studies human in various contexts has pertinent roles in addressing the changes that people have to deal with during the COVID19 Pandemic. Psychology researchers and practitioners in the world over have played their roles in empowering individuals and community to build new normal lifestyle during and beyond the pandemic time. The objective of this paper is to discuss the role of Psychology in empowering individuals and community to relate to increasingly challenging world. It discusses the psychosocial issues in this challenging time that warrant attention by psychologists. The paper also highlights the importance of informed interventions in empowering individuals and community to become fully functioning workforce in changing and challenging world.

Relationship between Mindfulness and Quality of Life in Early Adulthood during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This study aims to see whether awareness impacts the quality of life in early adulthood, especially during the Covid 19 pandemic. This research was conducted because Indonesia is currently experiencing the Corona Virus, better known as Covid 19, which is known to be known. This pandemic has a carom effect on many aspects. The public has started to feel the impact of the Corona Virus more than recently. Many people feel bored, cannot be productive, and even feel sad because of this situation. So that began to be done various ways to overcome this effect so as not to spread more widely. One of them is mindfulness, which is expected to affect how a person thinks and later will impact the quality of one’s life. The quality of life itself is very influential in a person’s life because it is related/covers almost all aspects of life, starting from emotional, social, and even physical in one’s life. If the quality of life is good, it cannot make someone feel prosperous and impact happiness, creativity, productivity, etc. Therefore, researchers want to see whether one’s awareness can affect aspects of the quality of life with this pandemic. This quantitative research uses a questionnaire as the primary data technique and uses SPSS ver.26 for data processing. The results showed that mindfulness has a relationship or can affect a person’s quality of life, especially individuals in early adulthood.

An Overview of School Well-Being Scale at Students of Muhammadiyah Vocational High School: A Pilot Study

The researcher conducted a psychometric analysis to know the school well-being scale’s validity and reliability and understand the dimensions that could form the school well-being variable. School well-being is a complex concept because it involves various essential elements in the teaching and learning process. School well-being is useful to help create a conducive learning environment and achieve learning goals in schools. The school well-being variable was measured using four dimensions from Konu & Rimpelä, namely having, loving, being, and health status. Forty students of SMK Muhammadiyah X in Ajibarang District, Banyumas, Indonesia, were involved. Analysis of research data to measure validity uses the corrected item-total correlation formula, while to measure reliability using Cronbach’s alpha which is analyzed using SPSS version 25. The analysis results prove that from the four dimensions of school well-being, there are 26 valid items and have a reliability coefficient of 0.903. Thus, the school well-being scale can be used for research.