Strategi Coping Pada Ibu Single Parent

Single parent mother is a condition where a woman has two concurrent roles, namely as mother which is its main position and also as father it can happen because of separation or death of the couple's world then decided not to remarry then raise their children alone. Being a single parent mother has a greater responsibility for having to take care of a child alone, working to meet the economic and educational needs of her children. The severity of the responsibilities and difficulties encountered can make the single parent mother depressed to the problems faced hence to reduce or eliminate the pressure, single parent mother need to do coping strategy. The purpose of this research is to know and describe coping strategy done by single parent mother. This research uses qualitative approach with subject in this research amounted 6 person with characteristic, single parent status mother and become member of PEPABRI. File collection using semi structured interviews. Based on the results of this study indicates that single parent mothers experience problems after the departure of their husbands in the form of social problems where they feel less appreciated after the departure of their husbands, economic problems to finance children's education and household needs, and psychological problems of loneliness after the departure of the husband felt that nothing could be shared together to exchange ideas. Single parent mothers face problems that arise in various ways. There are two forms of coping strategies that have been revealed in this research, among others, coping strategies based on problems by finding or planning problem solving to make the situation better, and coping strategies based on emotions