Abstract
Female teenage have considerable challenges in their developmental tasks. One of the developmental tasks in this period is social adaptation process, gain recognition as members of a new group in their surrounding. Need of acceptance and group conformity made them facing challenges as a female and teenagers. Challenges will arise when they begin to be faced with the mismatch between expectations and demands in standard of beauty which is represented through an assessment of body image. Subjective well-being is a self-evaluation of one's life based on a cognitive evaluation of life satisfaction and an evaluation of affective and positive emotions (Diener, Lucas & Oishi, 2012). The purpose of this study was to eximine the correlation between body image and Subjective WellBeing in female teenagers. This is quantitative study with a correlational survey method, using purposive sampling technique. Data collected from 91 female teenagers at SMAN 4 Batam in tenth grade to twelve grade. Instrument for data collection is Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) and Multidimensional Body- Self Relations Questionnaire-Appearance Scale (MBRSQ-AS) with alpha Cronbach α=.941. Result showed using Product Moment Pearson that body image significantly correlated with Subjective WellBeing at level 0,589 (p <0.05
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