In the transition period from high school to college, freshmen have to deal with the new environment, which makes them vulnerable to experience symptoms of mental disorders. The aim of the current study was to examine the role of loneliness as a predictor of symptoms of mental disorders among freshmen. Using a convenience sampling, 151 first-year undergraduate students from one faculty at Universitas Padjadjaran took part in the current study. The respondents completed a self-report questionnaire consisting of WHO Self-Report Questionnaire (SRQ) to assess symptoms of mental disorders and UCLA Loneliness scale to assess loneliness. The result showed that loneliness significantly predicted symptoms of mental disorders among freshmen. Theoretical implications of these empirical findings are discussed, as are practical implications highlighting the suggestions for the university stakeholders to implement an intervention that is effective in tackling freshmen's mental disorders such as social skill training, increasing social support, and increasing probability of social contact.
Adolescents' religious involvement occurs within a social context, an understudied aspect of which is relationships with peers. This longitudinal study assessed changes in religiosity over 1 year and explored the extent to which these were associated with their friends' religiosity and problem behavior. The first year sample included 1,010 (52.5% female) Muslim 13 and 15 year old Indonesian adolescents; 890 of these were assessed 1 year later. Adolescents were similar to their friends in religiosity. Changes in religiosity from year one to two were associated with friends' religiosity such that adolescents with religious friends were more religious at year two than those with less religious friends. Reductions in religiosity were also associated with the presence of problem behavior, consistent with the inverse relationship between these. Peers may play an important role in the development of adolescent religiousness and exploring these influences deserves further study.
The prevalence of mental disorders experienced by the global community, including in Indonesia, is increasing steadily. It is thus necessary to have a time-efficient and valid screening measuring tool as a basis to provide appropriate treatment to mental disorders. The Self-Report Questionnaire-20 (SRQ-20) is a screening tool that is often used in Indonesia to identify mental disorder symptoms. However there is limited study that has attempted to discover the SRQ-20 factors and conducted a construct validity test on them. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors and test the construct validity of SRQ-20 developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). There were 674 students involved in the study. Exploratory factor analysis was used to discover the factors. Evidence based on internal structure using a confirmatory factor analysis was also collected. Findings revealed five factors for the SRQ-20, these are energy, cognitive, depression, physiological, and anxiety. The five factor model is an alternative for classifying symptoms on the SRQ-20. This way, symptoms on the SRQ-20 can be grouped into five factors, of which can assist clinicians take more appropriate and faster action. Findings also revealed, however, that the construct validity of the five factor model needs is less than the one factor model. Therefore, for further research, using a wider population to check the stability of structure across developmental age. SRQ-20 could also be compared with the gold standard measurement to get a predictive validity.
First-year university students are vulnerable to certain psychological disorders. Psychological Well-Being (PWB) is one of the resources they can use to face academic challenges. However, research focusing to identify PWB as protective factor among first-year university students is still rare. This study employs quantitative method involving 151 respondents from the Faculty of Psychology of University X in West Java. It uses a PWB scale composed by Ryff and Self Report Questionnaire (SRQ-20). It also employs simple multiple regression to determine the relation between PWB and symptoms of psychological disorders, on one hand, and stepwise multiple regression to find out which dimensions of PWB are significant to anticipate psychological disorder, on the other. This study argues that PWB, especially self-acceptance and environment mastery dimension, can be used as a protective factor against psychological disorders. Keywords: first-year university students, psychological disorders, psychological well-being
During Marine Science Summer Course 2017, a continuous 24-h conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) “yoyo” measurement has been carried out at the entrance of Padangbai Lombok Strait to investigate seawater properties variations on semidiurnal tidal-scale which is dominant in the strait. The SBE CTD 19 plus is equipped with optional sensors such as pH, turbidity and chlorophyll-a derived-fluoro. During 24-h field observation, 15 CTD casts from sea surface to about 60 m depth have been acquired. It is shown that observed seawater properties fluctuate strongly four times a day, following semidiurnal-tide period with two flood-tide and two ebb-tide conditions. During flood-tide, water mass is derived from open strait with colder, saltier, denser and low dissolved oxygen characteristics. In contrast, during ebb-tide, local water mass is recirculated back from the inner bay to the open strait. It is interesting to note that fluctuation of chlorophyll-a indicates a diurnal signal. In addition, fluctuation of pH, turbidity and dissolved oxygen showed a weak semidiurnal signal.
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