Aging could not be avoided by individuals. Those who accepted aging happened to themselves would be successfully able to face it. On the other hand, those who could not accept aging, they would face obstacles in their lives. This study was aimed at measuring self-acceptance and successful aging by using optimism as a mediation. The subjects of this study were 54 elderly people who joined Islamic Religious activity in AR Hakim of Malang. The instrument used were Successful Aging Scale (SAS), The Sort Optimism Scale (TOS), Self-Acceptance Scale, while the data analysis used mediation regression Hayes SPSS 2.1. The result of this study showed that the mediator variable was available on the three criteria. The effect of self-acceptance in successful aging was not significant if there was optimism in analysis. Optimism affected successful aging with significance 0.0048.

Education is still considered as an important thing in society. Beside the increasing interest to of takeing higher level education, the phenomenon of getting married at a young age while taking attending college also arise. The purpose of this study was to find out the self-concept of married student while taking college. The method used for this research was qualitative with phenomenon model. The sample of this study was two undergraduated students of Muhammadiyah Malang Univesity, age range of 18-26 years old who are getting married while they are taking their study. Instrument of this study was in-depth interview to the sample by using phenomenology analysis technique with validation method of participant check. The result of study shows that UMM students who are getting married while taking their college have a positive self-concept.

Subjek memiliki kerentanan psikologis yang membuat Subjek mengalami berbagai hambatan dalam kesehariannya. Hasil asessmen menggunakan observasi, wawancara dan alat test psikologi menunjukkan bahwa Subjek terdiagnosa gangguan Skizofrenia dengan permasalahan rendahnya kepercayaan diri. Rendahnya kepercayaan diri Subjek menimbulkan hambatan dalam performa subjek. Subjek menjadi tidak produktif dalam kesehariannya karena selalu menolak untuk mengerjakan suatu tugas atau mengikuti kegiatan. Intervensi dilakukan menggunakan teknik positive activity dengan pendekatan behavior. Tujuan intervensi meningkatkan kepercayaan diri subjek. Instrumen menggunakan Self-confident Scale sebagai pretest dan posttest. Hasil intervensi ¬¬¬-menunjukkan adanya perubahan perilaku pasif Subjek mulai berkurang, intensi Subjek membicarakan mengenai kondisi fisiknya yang kurang menarik mulai berkurang dan pemahaman Subjek mengenai kepercayaan dirinya mulai bertambah.

A (48 tahun/P) memiliki kerentanan psikologis yang membuat Subjek mengalami berbagai hambatan dalam kesehariannya. Hasil asessmen menggunakan observasi, wawancara dan alat test psikologi menunjukkan bahwa Subjek terdiagnosa gangguan Skizofrenia dengan permasalahan rendahnya kepercayaan diri. Rendahnya kepercayaan diri Subjek menimbulkan hambatan dalam performa subjek. Subjek menjadi tidak produktif dalam kesehariannya karena selalu menolak untuk mengerjakan suatu tugas atau mengikuti kegiatan. Intervensi dilakukan menggunakan teknik positive activity dengan pendekatan behavior. Tujuan intervensi meningkatkan kepercayaan diri subjek. Instrumen menggunakan Self-confident Scale sebagai pretest dan posttest. Hasil intervensi menunjukkan adanya perubahan perilaku pasif Subjek mulai berkurang, intensi Subjek membicarakan mengenai kondisi fisiknya yang kurang menarik mulai berkurang dan pemahaman Subjek mengenai kepercayaan dirinya mulai bertambah.