The Meaning and the Source of Mother’s Happiness: An Explorative Study to Young Adult Mothers with Ages 20-40 Years Old

Endang Prastuti, Mareyke Maritje Wagey Tairas, Nurul Hartini

2018

Abstract

Subjective well-being or happiness has become a focus of positive psychology for the last three decades, however the meaning of happiness based on life span perspective and gender, especially for motherhood, so far is still unknown. In the other hand, mother’s happiness has an important role in the family because it effects social interaction with significant others. The aim of research: to understand the meaning and the source of happiness. The research which is used is survey methods. There are 40 respondents from various levels of occupation. 25-40 aged mothers who have characteristic: mostly have children aged around 1-6 years, college educated, the number of respondents who work and do not work are impartial. The result shows that (1) the meaning or definition of happiness by respondents were "subjective well-being in family domain” (2) the family is a source of happiness and foremost, once the source of unhappiness is when there are problems related to interaction with spouse and their children. (2) the lowest happiness perceived as problematic marriage age 1-4 years, and when respondents 20-24 years of age and continued until 25-30 years. (3) according to the respondents the most important predictors of happiness on the internal aspect is the character strength including gratitude, while families who provide emotional support is an important external predictor. Implications of the research findings:(1) The instrument of subjective well-being "new" namely subjective well-being in family domain needs to be developed, both components of cognitive (life satisfaction) and affective components (positive and negative affect) (2) should be developed model of subjective well-being ‘s mother with character strength as predictors.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Prastuti E., Tairas M. and Hartini N. (2018). The Meaning and the Source of Mother’s Happiness: An Explorative Study to Young Adult Mothers with Ages 20-40 Years Old.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS, ISBN 978-989-758-435-0, pages 101-107. DOI: 10.5220/0008585901010107

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icp-hesos18,
author={Endang Prastuti and Mareyke Maritje Wagey Tairas and Nurul Hartini},
title={The Meaning and the Source of Mother’s Happiness: An Explorative Study to Young Adult Mothers with Ages 20-40 Years Old},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,},
year={2018},
pages={101-107},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008585901010107},
isbn={978-989-758-435-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,
TI - The Meaning and the Source of Mother’s Happiness: An Explorative Study to Young Adult Mothers with Ages 20-40 Years Old
SN - 978-989-758-435-0
AU - Prastuti E.
AU - Tairas M.
AU - Hartini N.
PY - 2018
SP - 101
EP - 107
DO - 10.5220/0008585901010107