The Relationship between Social Support and Psycchological Well Being of Indonesian Rural to Urban Migrant University Students in Universitas Airlangga

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.