Demographic Factors and Life Satisfaction of Indonesian Christian Private Universities Lecturers: A Descriptive Preliminary Study

Yusak Novanto, Seger Handoyo, Jenny Lukito Setiawan

2018

Abstract

Life satisfaction plays important role to improve quality of individual’s work performance in any profession, including lecturers in higher education institution. As educators, lecturers are obliged to implement “Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi” properly and responsibly. This research is a descriptive preliminary study to analyse the relation of demographic factors with lecturer’s life satisfaction of Christian private universities in Indonesia. Using SWLS (Satisfaction with Life Scale), this research used 60 respondents from several Christian private universities. This research found that most of the lecturers (43.3%) were satisfied with their life condition right now. Furthermore, based on cross tabulation analysis, it is known that the difference of demographic factors among the respondents has each unique pattern on the lecturer's life satisfaction. Further findings with Kendall’s tau and V’ Crammers coefficient shows that demographic factors, namely age, income, number of co-workers, marital status, spouse’s status, and health conditions have a significant correlation and association with the lecturer’s life satisfaction. In particular, with logistic ordinal regression, we found that age, income, and spouse’s status have significant effect towards life satisfaction. Suggestion were addressed to University Leaders to improve life satisfaction and subjective wellbeing of their lecturers through some psychological interventions and employee’s development program.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Novanto Y., Handoyo S. and Setiawan J. (2018). Demographic Factors and Life Satisfaction of Indonesian Christian Private Universities Lecturers: A Descriptive Preliminary Study.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 187-198. DOI: 10.5220/0008587101870198

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icp-hesos18,
author={Yusak Novanto and Seger Handoyo and Jenny Lukito Setiawan},
title={Demographic Factors and Life Satisfaction of Indonesian Christian Private Universities Lecturers: A Descriptive Preliminary Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,},
year={2018},
pages={187-198},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008587101870198},
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 - Demographic Factors and Life Satisfaction of Indonesian Christian Private Universities Lecturers: A Descriptive Preliminary Study
SN - 978-989-758-435-0
AU - Novanto Y.
AU - Handoyo S.
AU - Setiawan J.
PY - 2018
SP - 187
EP - 198
DO - 10.5220/0008587101870198