Pengaruh dukungan sosial teman sebaya terhadap kepuasan hidup lansia di komunitas lansia

The level of life satisfaction of the elderly often decreases due to changes in the social environment. Therefore, to increase the life satisfaction of the elderly, peer social support is needed. Elderly involvement in social activities plays an important role in maintaining their life satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of peer social support on elderly life satisfaction in the elderly community. The research subjects were elderly people aged 60-70 years at Sekolah Lansia Tangguh Mojokerto City, with a total of 147 subjects. The sampling technique used was cluster random sampling. The research instrument used a life satisfaction scale, namely The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) scale and a peer social support scale, namely the Social Provision Scale (SPS) scale. The results of this study indicate a significance value of < 0.001, meaning that there is an effect of peer social support on life satisfaction in the elderly in the elderly community. The R2 value obtained in this study is 0.208, which means that 20.8% of peer social support contributes to the life satisfaction of the elderly. The implication of this study is the importance of the elderly having high life satisfaction so that the elderly can feel happiness, enthusiasm for activities, and can establish positive social relationship.