ABSTRACT
The present study determined the relationship between emotion regulation and student adjustment among collage students in Indonesia. An important component of a successful collage student was how they manage their social, psychological, and academic challenges as they transition to tertiary education. In collage students they usually left their hometown so they would face new experience in academic and culture. Processes around managing these challenges are broadly referred to as academic adjustment. This interest of research was how college student regulated their emotion to adapt with academic life. There are two strategies of regulation emotion: Cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. We used purposive sampling technique to collecting data. The amount of participants in this research were 508 with range 18-23 Years old College Student in Indonesia. The regulation emotion be measured by Emotion Regulation Questionnare by Gross & John (2003). While Academic Adjustment measured by Academic Adjustment Scale by Anderson, Guan and Koc (2016). The result of this research is there is no correlation between emotion regulation and academic adjustment. However, further investigation revealed that the subscale cognitive reappraisal and emotion regulation was positively correlated (r=0.021 p<0.05) with academic adjustment. These findings suggest that more we cognitive reappraisal experience the more we can adjust in academic life.
KEYWORDS
Emotion regulation, academic adjustment, collage students, Indonesia