PENGARUH SELF ESTEEM TRAINING TERHADAP PENYESUAIAN DIRI LANSIA MENJALANI MASA PENSIUN PADA WARGA PERUMAHAN PROBOLINGGO INDAH KOTA PROBOLINGGO

Abstract

Retirement is a condition which a person stops employment completely. No salary like before. Not all of retirees can deal with this condition. Many problems rise and disturb the development of elderly self adaptation on retirement. Self esteem training is one of action to help the retirees to accept the retirement condition. The study aim was to identify the effect of self esteem training against elderly self adaptation on retirement. The design of this study was pre experimental research with one group pre test and post test design. This study used purposive sampling with 20 respondents. Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test was used analized data. The subjects were given three training sessions two times a day. The result shown 7 (35%) espondents had good self adaptation before self esteem training. After the training, there were 16 (80%) espondents shown good self adaptation. There is significant effect of self esteem training to elderly self adaptation with 95% CI (α = 0.05) -value 0.003 <α (0.05) as a result. The research conclusion is self esteem training can be used to improve elderly self adaptation on retirement. The study recommend on the needs of further research and the use of this training as one of the psychological nursing interventions in providing care to elderly retirees.