STRATEGI COPING STRES PADA LANJUT USIA BERJENIS KELAMIN PEREMPUAN DI UNIT PELAKSANA TEKNIS PELAYANAN SOSIAL LANJUT USIA JEMBER

Abstract

Stress is a condition where a person very depressed. Coping stress in the Elderly is any attempt to regulate environmental demands and conflicts that arise, reducing the mismatch or gap of perception between the demands of stressful situations with the individual's ability to meet these demands. The purpose of this study was to analyze the stress coping strategies in female elderly in the Technical Unit of Elderly Social Services of Jember. This study used qualitative research with case study approach triangulation techniques. The results of research indicate that the elderly most experienced stress caused by the social environment, physical environment, and the stress of the family. The social environment is a friend into the causes of stress. The cause of the stress that comes from the physical environment, that not appropriate with the conditions of the Elderly, and the stress comes from family with never accept their most existence. Main informants in this study that female elderly are dominant to coped stress using stress coping strategies form of emotional focused coping rather than problem focused coping form because female prefer the feeling than logic. Technical Unit of Elderly Social Services of Jember needs to counseling coaching the officials to increase knowledge of strategy coping stress in elderly, adjust the facilities with elderly condition, and increase the activities how can help to coping stres.