Resilience Modeling in Indonesian Adolescents: Associated with Quality of Life and Self-Esteem

Abstract

Problems of adolescents in Indonesia concentrate on the dynamics of adolescent self-development and influencing environmental factors and both of these affect each other. Based on the results of the resilience study on the basis of the risk factors that influence adolescent China Benteng in Tangerang, then the research was expanded to target youth in Indonesia. The aim of the study was to obtain a model of adolescent resilience towards quality of life and influenced by self-esteem. The model tested can then be used to intervene on adolescents who have problems. The study sample was 567 people, consisting of 179 junior high school students in Jakarta, 217 high school students in Jakarta, Purwokerto, Bojonegoro and College in first semester as many as 167 people. Model testing using SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) is processed with the Lisrel 8.80 program. The design of the model consists of Direct Model, Generic Model, Mediating Model and Moderating Model. The conclusion of the model test results shows that the teenagers of College in first semester have direct models, mediating models and moderating models; adolescent junior high school has a generic model and high school adolescents do not have a model because empirical samples have not supported the theory being built.