DAMPAK PERCERAIAN TERHADAP KUALITAS HIDUP ANAK DI KECAMATAN MUNCAR KABUPATEN BANYUWANGI

Abstract

Quality of life among children decreases by multifactor, one of them is parental divorce. Each year, over 100.000 Indonesian children suffer from the divorce of their parents. Divorce causing irreparable harm to all involved, but most especially to the children. This study analysis differentiation between children from marriage family and divorce family. Assesment of the quality of life among children use KIDSCREEN- 52 questionnaire measures 10 Heath-Related Quality of Life (HR-QoL) dimensions. This study is an analytic with cross-sectional approach. Data is based on children in secondary school with 40 sample that were included from exclussion and inclussion criteria. The exclussion criteria are children living in the boarding school, children experience an impairment of health so that cannot become respondent and children have parents remarriage. Analysis of data consists of Chi-square test, Mann-Whitney U test, Independent t test, Anova test and Kruskall-Wallis test with α=0,05. Result of these analysis showed that quality of life among children in divorce family had lower score than children from marriage family. In divorce family, children have lower score in physical well-being, psyichological well-being, moods and emotions, autonomy, parental relations and home life, school environment and financial resources. By time elapsed since separation, children in divorce family had lower score in psychological well-being and moods and emotions.