SOFINA PALAMANI, 100941034 (2011) PENGARUH BIMBINGAN MENTAL UNTUK MENINGKATKAN SELF �ESTEEM PADA LANJUT USIA DEPRESI DI PANTI TRESNA WERDHA HARGO DEDALI SURABAYA. Thesis thesis, UNIVERSITAS AIRLANGGA.

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Abstract

To become old is a process of loosing one‟s ability to maintain one‟s normal function so that the system in the body is unable to fight the infection that comes in, and the damage in the body. In line with the aging process, the body will face various problems which is also called degenerative desease. The accumulation of all the process of depression in life , include illness, loosing hopes, loosing jobs, loneliness, withdrawing from one‟s environment and the like. It was all of these things which cause depression in old people. This research was aimed at studying the effect of mental guidance on the decrease of the level of depression in the inhabitants of the Old Home Hargo Dedali.The research method used was Quasy Experimental, where mental guidance was the independent variable, and the dependent variable was depression and self-esteem. The sample was chosen at random, from a a homogeneous population, which was divided into two groups. One group was the experimental group with 10 old people, and the other group was the kontrol group with 9 old people. The data was collected based on a questionnaire which use the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) to measure the level of depression, and another questionnaire which use Self-Esteem Questionnaire (SEQ) to measure the Self-Esteem Scale. Then it was analyzed with non-parametric statistics. The result of the research showed that there is a difference between before and after the experiment. The difference between the level of of depression before and after experiment where p = 0,034 and between the experimental group and the control group is quite significant with p.= 0,032. In the case of self-esteem the difference between the groups is scored p = 0,008. The above result showed that mental guidance could lower the level of depression and increase self-esteem in old people. It can thus be concluded that.

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