Abstract
Indonesian parents believe that higher education in urban area or big city such as Surabaya have a good quality compared to the one in rural area. Therefore, they encourage their children to pursue higher education in Surabaya. However, it has been identified that rural to urban students has emotional disorder when trying to adapt to the urban life. This circumstances lead to a low level psychological well-being. One of the factors that could increase psychological wellbeing condition is social support. However, there is still little evident that shown the relationship between social support and psychological well-being among plural to urban students. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identified the relationship between social support and psychological well-being. This was quantitative research that used social support scale and psychological well-being scale. This research involved 226 students of Airlangga University, Surabaya. The value result of correlation coefficient is 0.018 which mean in this study there is a positive relationship between social support and psychological well-being of Airlangga University rural to urban students.
Highlights
The quality of higher education is still uneven in Indonesia, making many students decide to continue their tertiary education in big cities, it is because students expect a good future so that many students are willing to go to college to come out of their home regions [1]
The results of interviews conducted by researchers, low psychological well-being found in overseas students at Airlangga University that 3 of them were found to have low psychological well-being
This research using quantitative method with associated descriptive approaches. it is located in Airlangga University Surabaya, the subjects of this search are under graduate rural to urban students
Summary
The quality of higher education is still uneven in Indonesia, making many students decide to continue their tertiary education in big cities, it is because students expect a good future so that many students are willing to go to college to come out of their home regions [1]. That causes these students must migrate, students must survive in their new environment and go through the changes and differences in life [2]. According to Ryff and Keyes [5] that psychological well-being, happiness, and the satisfaction of a person can cause factors that support and encourage the emergence of positive functions that arise in a person
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