HUBUNGAN DUKUNGAN SOSIAL DENGAN RESILIENSI PADA PEREMPUAN YANG MENGALAMI INFERTILITAS

Abstract

Infertility is the failure of a partner to get a pregnancy after regular sexual intercourse for at least one year without contraception. In a marriage that have not been blessed a children, women are often positioned as the most responsible part, because normal women tend to become true mother and become pregnant. Due to the strong gender bias in case of infertility, women tend to be blamed. Infertile women are seen as abnormalities or weaknesses because this is related to their nature to conceive and give birth. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of social support with resilience in women who experience infertility and know the relationship of each dimension of social support with resilience. The research method use quantitative non-experimental methods with correlational design. The sampling technique is nonprobability sampling with purposive sampling technique. Study sample of 100 women who experienced infertility. The social support measure use a theories of Cutrona, Gardner, and Uchino (in Sarafino and Smith, 2011) with valid items 42 and reliability 0.952. The measure of resilience use a theory of Grotberg (1995) with valid items 55 and reliability 0.947. The result showed that there was a positive relationship between social support and resilience (sig. 0.000 and r=0.855). Social support contributes 73.1% to resilience and 26.9% influenced by other factors beyond research. The statistical test result state that social support dimension has a relationship with resilience, is emotional dimension, instrumental dimension, and companionship dimension. The dimension that has the greatest relationship with resilience is the dimension of emotional (emotional support) with r=0.815.

Keywords: Social Support, Resilience, Women, Infertility