Hubungan Antara Religiusitas dengan Kebermaknaan Hidup pada Lanjut Usia

Abstract

This study attempt to find correlation between religiousity and meaningful of life in elder. The hypothesis was the higher the religiousity, the higher the meaningful of life. The lower religiousity, the lower the meaningful of life. The subject in this research are 45 elders (male and female) who live in Astambul, South Kalimantan. The elders are moeslem and their lives with husband or wife and their child. Their age started from 60 years old. The election of the subjects are based on the purposive sampling area. The data collection used the questionnaire research with scale methode that consists of two scales which are (1) the scale of religiousity based on Glock and Stark Theory (Ancok and Suroso, 2004), it consists of 37 items with total coeficient item that moves from 0.318 to 0.775, and alpha coeficient corelation as much as 0.943. and (2) the scales of meaningful of life based on Bastaman theory (1996), it consist of 33 item with total coeficient item that moves from 0.365 to 0.842, and alpha coeficient corelation as much as 0.937. The data analysis is used product moment correlation. It was found is no relation between religiousity and meaningful of life (r=0.038; p=0.401, p>0.05). The level of religiousity gives influence of 0.000% to the meaningful of life.