Problematics of Single Mother in Parenting

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify coping strategy, religious coping, and cognitive distortion among single mothers. The samples of this study were a hundred respondents that selected from the communities of single mothers in Yogyakarta. Data collected with a set of questionnaires that consists of three inventories. The reliability values of Cronbach Alpha for the inventories were in the range of .84 to .98. Independent t-test, ANOVA and Pearson Correlation were used for data analysis. The study was found that the coping strategy of single mothers is cognitive restructuring with adaptive and maladaptive function as the second scale; the cognitive distortion is preoccupation of danger; and the religious coping is religious forgiving. The further results found that there was a significant relationship between coping strategy and cognitive distortion, while there was no significant relationship between religious coping and cognitive distortion. Based on the findings, several implications and recommendations were discussed.