This research driven by the phenomena that majority of mothers have poor understanding on her role as the first educators for their children and the significance of her emotion function in optimizing the child development. The purpose of research was to test the effectiveness of home-start parenting program in improving maternal emotional function. This research used a quasi-experimental design with a single subject. Subjects of research were three mothers who have low levels on their emotional functions. Data were analyzed by analysis of visual inspection to see the trajectory of the line graph and statistical analysis used the overlap data to test the effectiveness of the intervention. The result showed the occurrence of significant difference in scores between baseline phase and the intervention with increasing maternal emotional function scores level. These findings suggested that home-start parenting programs effective in improving the quality of maternal emotional function. Hence the home-start parenting programs can be used as a model of intervention in early childhood parenting.

Trauma is emotional response that involve intense fear, helplessness, or horror. Trauma raises three reactions i.e. disrupt memory, avoidance behavior and emergence of physical disorders. Children love games. This study aimed to test the effect of the playing approach against avoidance behaviors in a child with treatment trauma due to chronic disease. This study used a quasi experimental by Single Subject Randomized Time Series Design. The research subject was a seven years old child who suffering chronic Lyme disease with a fist size swelling in her face who showed avoidance behaviour trauma. Lego, drawing, folding, and story telling have been choosen as playing approach. The avoidance behaviour were observed consists of treatment avoidance and laboratory avoidance. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis in the form of graphs. The results shown that playing method had lowering effect in both avoidance behaviors.

Changes in the organization is important to retain its existence and continues to grow. This study attempted to see the connection between personality factors (the big five factor), organizational change readiness and the criteria of World Class University at University X. Based on the analysis of qualitative and statistical tests associated with the third link variable, then showed that the personality and organizational change readiness have an important role for the achievement of world class criteria university. This research showed that personality profiles of extraversion and openess to experience as well as aspects of the vision of change and acceptance phase to be decisive for the index of world class university. This result seems to be supported by the presence of the relationship between extraversion profile with aspects of the vision of change and acceptance. The profile of openness to experience also correlated with aspects of vision of change and acceptance.

Deal with children in adolescence stage, parents often showing impatience behavior, unable to control him/herself, complaining when faced with difficulties in parenting and do not listen attentively toward child’s problems. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of mindful parenting program to improve parenting skills in a positive way. The research method used a quasi-experimental design with measurement technique was Interpersonal Mindfulness in Parenting Scale. The subjects were 28 parents of students of class VII SMPN 15 Bandung. The results showed that the effect of mindful parenting programs has improved significantly on three skills in aspect of positive parenting included listening attentively, emotional awareness of self and children, and self-regulation in the parenting relationship. But for the other two aspects, namely acceptance of self and children without judgment, and the love of self and children the results are less significant.

Being a successful elderly is the purpose of the development stage of late elderly. The aim of study was to determine the meaning of success reflected by the elderly couple. This study used a phenomenology approach through data collection methods were interview and observation. The results showed that the meaning of success was when they have the benefit of the previous enterprises and it shared with children and grandchildren. On the other hand, success also means the happiness of the family when the family is harmonious. As a couple, they capable in maintain mutually support each other and solving problem together. The factors have affecting in elderly success namely physical healthy, activities, psychological factors, social factors, and religiosity.

A collector has peculiarities in their behavior, they have an emotional bond with his collection, persistent in hunting collection and preserved in caring, worried about the loss and damage of his/her collections. This study focused on how the collector’s personality profile and behavior on collecting records by using the theory of the Big Five Personality Profile from McIntosh & Schmeichel. The subjects of research were collector of records aged 30 to 39 years old with the level of social status was medium. By factors analysis through International Item Pool Representation (IPIP-NEO) questionnaire from Goldberg, this research found that type personality mostly were the openess to experience was high, Counscientiousness was high, Extraversion was high, Agreeableness was high, and Neuroticsm was low (O?C?E?A?N?). Additionally the Collecting Behaviour type were the Passionate was high, the Inquisitive was low, the Hobby was high and the Expressive was high (P?I?H?E?).

This study intended to determine the symptoms and the factors of post-power syndrome, as well as some efforts of the teachers in deal with retirement. The qualitative method was used in this study and data was collected through observation, interview and some documentations studied. Sources of data were two retired teachers in MAN 2 Yogyakarta. The result shown some symptoms experienced by the subjects comprised to get closer in worship activities, but emotionally be more temperamental. The most prominent factors of post-power syndrome among the two informants included the loss of social contact with their co-workers, in addition to losing positions, loss of dignity and a sense of meaning, as well as the loss of income sources. Due to retirement, their activities and routines seemed disconnected from other teacher’s activities so both of them felt losing social contact with colleagues. Some efforts for minimizing the symptoms of post-power syndrome was involving in forum gathering that held by the school.

Based on the observation of the researcher, the lack of future orientation amongst students, particularly in the area of career, led by deciding on study program was not deliberately when enroll in the university. The research intended to obtain empirical data on the effect of the identity status on future orientation of the work area among students of the psychology program. The method used correlation study. The results showed that there was a significant influence of the identity status on the future orientation in working area. R square (R2) was 0.314, it meant 31.4% of the variation of the future orientation in working area influenced by the identity status. Three of the four identity statuses have a significant influence, namely the identity of achievement, the diffuse, and the moratorium. In despite there was correlation between foreclosure identity with future-orientation in working area however there was not significant effect.

In general, people with schizophrenia have damaged reality testing which make them disconnected from their social environment. Despite being entered in the residual phase, it is still reluctant to interact with other people and have not productive yet in utilizing his/her capabilities. But the researchers also saw some people with residual schizophrenic who able to be productive as well as socialization; it associated with their acceptance to his/her self and its disorders. This study intended to figure out the image of self-acceptance of people with residual schizophrenia while they suffered with a large of pressures. This study used a qualitative method with case study design. The subjects of research were the people with residual schizophrenia with age range of 20 to 40 years old. From the research, it was found that the people with residual schizophrenia that can be productive and actively involved in social environment effected by the acceptance of him/herself although the self-acceptance quality was different among subjects