PENGARUH SELF-ESTEEM TERHADAP LONELINESS PADA WANITA EMERGING ADULTHOOD YANG BELUM PERNAH MEMILIKI PASANGAN

Emerging adulthood is a transition period from the adolescent stage to the adult stage. Emerging adults go through a crises of intimacy vs isolation. One of the developmental tasks at emerging adulthood is to start an intimate relationships by getting a partner. Individuals who fail at this stage might experience loneliness. Women are emotionally more sensitive so that loneliness generally occurs in women. Loneliness is related to self-esteem, where self-esteem is an individual's perception about positive or negative view of themselves. This study was aimed to determine whether there was an influence of self-esteem on loneliness in female emerging adults who have never had a partner. This study used incidental sampling technique and involved seventy one women in emerging adulthood who had never had a partner. The self-esteem variable is measured using 2 indicators, namely self-acceptance and self-worth. Meanwhile, the loneliness variable is measured from 4 indicators, namely affective, motivation, behavior and social problems which are arranged using a Likert scale. The results of the normality, linearity and homoscedasticity tests were met. Based on the results of simple regression analysis, the value F = 40.859 was obtained with a significance value of 0.000 (p < 0.05) which shows that there is a negative and significant influence of self-esteem on loneliness in emerging adulthood women who have never had a partner, where the higher the self-esteem as women emerge into adulthood, the lower their feelings of loneliness will be, and vice versa. The equation of the line formed is y = 74.231 - 1.099x. It is also known that the self-esteem variable contributes 37% to the loneliness variable.