The Relationship Between Social Support and Self-Acceptance with Meaning of Life in Deaf Adolescents

Data from several sources, both international and national, state that suicides have occurred frequently in the last 5 years. The cause of many of these suicides is the low meaning of life. Circulating cases state that individuals with adolescence to late adolescence are often victims and perpetrators of suicide due to their low meaning of life. However, there have not been many studies that explain the meaningfulness of life there are disabilities. This study aims to determine the relationship between social support and self-acceptance with meaning of life in deaf adolescents. This study uses a quantitative method of correlation method. The sample amounted to 39 high school students at SMALB “X” in Surabaya. The data collection method uses a social support scale, self-acceptance scale, and meaning of life scale which are distributed conventionally. The results of the research on the simultaneous correlation showed a significant relationship between variables. In the partial correlation, there is a positive correlation or relationship between the social support variable and the meaning of life variable. In the partial correlation, there is a correlation or positive relationship between the self-acceptance variable and the meaning of life variable. The conclusion that can be presented based on the results of the study is that there is a relationship between social support and self-acceptance with the meaning of life in deaf adolescent.