In adolescence, there are several developmental tasks that must be faced, one of which is the development of autonomy. Role of parents can’t be separated on the formation of adolescent autonomy because of an emotional connection between parents and adolescence. Emotional connection that persists for long periods is called attachment. This study aimed to determine the relationship between parent-adolescent attachment with adolescent autonomy in SMKN 1 Denpasar.   The sampling technique used in this study is simple random sampling. Subjects of this research are 330 students in SMKN 1 Denpasar, from age 15-18 years old. Researcher deploy two scales, the parent-adolescent attachment scale adapted from the Inventory Parent and Peer Attachment (Armsden & Greenberg, 1987) and autonomy scale is based on aspects that proposed by Steinberg (2009). The data obtained in this study were analyzed by simple regression analysis to examine the relationship between parent-adolescent attachment and autonomy.   Regression analysis results t value 3,652 and P = 0.000 (P < 0.05). It means attachment to parents and adolescent autonomy are significantly and positively correlated, when parent-adolescent’s attachment is high they will have a high score on autonomy too. Coefficient of determination equal to 0.039 indicates the attachment contribution to the autonomy is 3,9%, and  96,1% was contributed by other factors such as gender, birth order, school activities and community activities.   Keywords: attachment, autonomy, adolescence.

Parents wish to have a healthy child, both physically and mentally, but in fact not all couples blessed with healthy children and actually get a child with early developmental disorder, such as down syndrome (Mawardah, Siswati, & Hidayati, 2012). Ravindranadan dan Raju (2008) represent that parents with special needs face a stressor and different stress reactions related to their child disability. To face the stressor and stress resctions, Pozzo, Sarria and Brioso (2011) revealed that parents with disabilities need to make psychological adjustments. This situation attracts researcher to find out the experiences and psychological adjustments of parents with down syndrome child.   This study use qualitative method with phenomenological approach. Respondents in this study were eight people, consisting of four fathers and four mothers who lived in Denpasar and Tabanan. The result of this study indicates that parents with down syndrome children are able to make psychological adjustment. There are five factors that influenced parents to make psychological adjustment, there are characteristics of down syndrome child are capable of independent, support and encouragement from the surrounding environment, has a positive perception of the child with down syndrome, using adaptive coping strategies and individual characteristics such as high education.   Keywords: psychological adjustment, parent, down syndrome child.

Student is a learner who has moral duties in applying Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi consisted of three important missions, which are implementing education, research, and community service. One embodinent of community service is being involved in the organizational activities around campus. Student activists have an immense relation with the role of emotional intelligence since they have more responsibilities than those who are not actively participating in organisation. In addition to running the missions of Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi, students would also encounter personal problem and be faced with school’s demands. The purpose of conducting this research is to investigate the correlation of emotional intelligence and academic achievement of student organization activists at University of Udayana. The sampling technique used in this research was simple random sampling. Subjects were 129 student activists at University of Udayana, age ranged from 17 to 25 years old. Emotional intelligence scale was deployed based on emotional intelligence aspects proposed by Goleman (2002). Transcripts were also collected to determine academic achievement of the subjects, aside from spreading the emotional intelligence scale. Karl Pearson product-moment correlation analysis was conducted to observe correlation of emotional intelligence and academic achievement. Correlation coefficient value obtained from the result of analysis performed on the variables, emotional intelligence and academic achievement, were -0.204 and P of 0.021 (p<0.05). This result shows that there is a negative relationship between emotional intelligence and academic achievement, which also indicates that the increase of emotional intelligence is followed by the decrease of academic achievement on student organization activists. The number of organizations in which the subjects participated in, various activities performed outside campus, and other external factors of research’s subjects contributed to the effect of academic achievements.   Keyword: emotional intelligence, academic achievement, student organization activists.

The incidence of suicide increases in Indonesia and around the world that encourage the growing of research on suicidal behavior. Hopelessness recognized as a strongly predictor of suicidal behavior, including suicidal ideas and suicide attempts (Beck, Brown, Berchick, Stewart, & Steer, 1990;Reinecke and Franklin-Scott, 2005). However, the empirical results show the correlation between hopelessness and suicidal behavior seem to be less consistent. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship of hopelessness and suicidal behavior through the study of meta-analysis. There are 27 studies are including in this metaanalysis study. Two artifacts allow for correction in these study are sampling error and measurement error. The result shows that the correlation of hopelessness and suicidal behavior is 0.360, with the confidence level is 95%.

Homoseksual di Indonesia, khususnya gay semakin lama semakin menunjukkan keberadaannya. Gay adalah seorang laki-laki yang memiliki ketertarikan baik secara fisik dan emosional kepada laki-laki lainnya (Huegel, 2011). Masyarakat Indonesia yang sangat menjunjung tinggi budaya ketimuran memandang homoseksual sebagai fenomena yang tidak sesuai dengan norma di masyarakat. Hal tersebut membuat sebagian besar gay memilih untuk menyembunyikan identitas seksualnya. Pada kenyataannya, beberapa gay justru berani mengungkapkan identitas seksualnya karena dipengaruhi oleh berbagai faktor. Pengungkapan identitas tersebut dikenal dengan istilah coming out (Berger, 1996). Gay yang coming out pada umumnya akan mengalami berbagai penolakan, terutama dari lingkungan sosial yang kurang menerima homoseksualitas (Evans & Broido, 1999). Menurut Burn (1993), umpan balik dari lingkungan merupakan faktor yang dapat memengaruhi pembentukan konsep diri pada individu. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, penelitian ini difokuskan untuk membahas mengenai konsep diri gay yang coming out. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi. Pengambilan data dilakukan dengan menggunakan teknik wawancara dan observasi pada tiga gay yang coming out. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa umpan balik negatif dari lingkungan dapat membentuk konsep diri yang negatif pada individu. Begitu juga sebaliknya, individu gay membentuk konsep diri yang positif ketika lingkungannya memberikan umpan balik yang juga positif. Temuan lainnya menunjukkan bahwa umpan balik yang diterima individu dari orang yang tidak penting dalam kehidupannya tidak memengaruhi individu dalam membentuk konsep dirinya.     Kata kunci: Konsep diri, gay, coming out.