ABSTRACT
Yogyakarta is the “city of students” in Indonesia. There is a lot of people decided to study in Yogyakarta. Especially, for them who have completed their high school education and start to entering college. They who have decided to move to Yogyakarta and start their study in college may feel loneliness because they have to left their hometown and adapt in new social life. This study presents to investigate the relationship between life satisfaction and loneliness among college students in Yogyakarta. We hypothesized that there is a negative correlation between life satisfaction and loneliness. To measured life satisfaction we used Satisfaction with Life Scale by Dienner. To measured loneliness, we used De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale (Short Scale). The reliability coeficient of Satisfaction with Life Scale by Dienner was 0.765 (_ = .765). The reliability coeficient of De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale was 0.709 (_ = .709). In this study we used purposive sampling and the participants of this study were 301 college students in Yogyakarta. The participants were consist of 229 female students and 72 male students. This study was done by quantitative research to test empirically correlation between life satisfaction and loneliness among college students in Yogyakarta. The duration of the study were 2 weeks. This analysis method used Spearman Correlation. We found that there was negative correlation between life satisfaction and loneliness among college students in Yogyakarta. This research also found that life satisfaction significantly correlated with loneliness from the value of correlation r = -0.373 with the significance of p = 0.00, p < 0.05. The higher life satisfaction of college students, the lower loneliness. Otherwise, the lower life satisfaction of college students, the higher loneliness.
KEYWORDS
Life satisfaction, loneliness, college students, Yogyakarta