COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people around the globe. Countries, including Indonesia, implemented large-scale social restrictions. Since marriage is found to be beneficial to people’s quality of life (QoL), the study aimed to examine the QoL of married people in Indonesia during a large-scale social restriction of the COVID-19 pandemic. An online cross-sectional survey using Qualtrics was conducted in June 2020. Respondents’ sociodemographic data, spouse data (as reported by the respondents), and pandemic-related data were collected, followed by QoL data, measured by WHQOOL-BREF. WHOQL-BREF consists of 26 questions grouped into four domains: physical, psychological, social relationships, and environmental. Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis H and Spearman correlation analyses were employed to compare QoL between groups of sociodemographic characteristics. In total, 603 respondents were recruited. The respondents’ mean age is 35.3 years (SD = 7.61), most are females (82%), bachelor degree graduate (95%), Islam (78%), employed (69%), and assigned to work from home during the pandemic (76%). Married men reported better QoL in almost all domains than women; employed respondents reported higher QoL scores than unemployed; higher educated respondents reported higher QoL than those with lower education; respondents with higher income reported higher QoL than those with lower income. We found significant positive correlations between the QoL scores and age, spouse’s age, and marriage length, although they were considered small. Compared to Indonesian population normative scores pre-pandemic, our sample reported no difference in physical and social domains, lower in the psychological domain, but higher in the environmental domain. Indonesian married people, especially women, those with low level of education, currently out of work, and below-average financial condition are the ones who reported worse quality of life during the lockdown. These results can help direct the Indonesian government efforts in dealing with psychosocial problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for married couples.
Masa dewasa muda ditandai dengan adanya tugas perkembangan untuk mulai mengambil peran dan tanggung jawab sebagai individu yang produktif dalam bidang pekerjaan dan karir, relasi, dan finansial. Pada masa ini, individu dewasa muda mengalami berbagai tantangan dan kesulitan yang dapat memunculkan emosi negatif yang nyata dan sering disebut sebagai quarter-life crisis. Di sisi lain, produktivitas individu juga dipengaruhi oleh tingkat well-being individu. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara quarter-life crisis dan subjective well-being pada individu dewasa muda. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan metode korelasi yang melibatkan 126 responden mahasiswa dalam rentang usia 20-23 tahun yang terpilih menggunakan teknik sampel acak klaster. Pengambilan data dilakukan secara daring menggunakan Google form. Alat ukur yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah alat ukur Quarter-Life Crisis, Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), dan Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE). Analisis statistik yang digunakan adalah uji korelasi Pearson. Hasil analisa data menunjukkan bahwa quarter-life crisis berkorelasi negatif dengan kepuasan hidup dan afek positif, namun berkorelasi positif terhadap afek negatif. Dapat disimpulkan terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara quarter-life crisis dan subjective well-being.
People make choices among different options for different reasons. We hypothesized that people will choose the options that they believe will make them happier and that this effect of anticipated happiness on decision-making will be moderated by style of thinking (i.e., intuitive or deliberative). In a two-phase online experiment, 15 pairs of options were randomly presented one at a time, and participants indicated the extent to which each option would contribute to their happiness (i.e. anticipated happiness of a choice option). One week later, participants were randomly assigned to make choices on similar pairs of options either by using deliberative thinking or intuitive thinking. Results of a linear mixed-effects model analysis revealed that anticipated happiness influenced choices significantly. However, this occurred independent of whether participants made the choice in a deliberative or in an intuitive mindset. The implications of these findings for understanding the association between decision-making and happiness are discussed.
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