SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING DITINJAU DARI FORGIVENESS DAN PROACTIVE COPING PADA IBU TUNGGAL KARENA PERCERAIAN YANG BEKERJA SEBAGAI PNS PADA PEM. PROV. JATENG

Subjective well being is the important thing for everyone, single mother included. Subjective well being has cognitive and afektif components. Forgiveness may be oneself, another person, or a situation. The proactive individual strives for life improvement and builds up resources that assure progress and quality of functioning. This research aims to identify subjective well being viewed from forgiveness and proactive coping among divorced single mothers who works as officials in Government of Central Java Province. Subjects of this study were 34 people selected using purposive sampling. These single mothers are 25 to 45 years old, finished at least the education level of high school, have children in her nurture, and already be a single mother over one to four years. Data collection instruments utilized were adaptation of Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) by Diener, Emmons, Larsen, and Griffin, Positive Affect and Negative Affect Scales (PANAS) by Watson, Clark, and Tellegen, Heartland Forgiveness Scale (HFS) by Thompson and Snyder, and Proactive Coping Inventory by Greenglass, Schwarzer and Taubert. Data collected were analyzed using regression analysis with the help of SPSS for windows version 16.0. Result showed that (1) there was a positive and significant effect of forgiveness and proactive coping on subjective well being among divorced single mothers (F= 19,51