Making Meaning In Student: Indigenous Psychology Perpective

Abstract

Somanyevents that can cause a person's life becomes filled with stress, and in suchconditions according to Mikulincer and Florian (1996), problem solving copingtypically become less effective. The study of meaning making became moreand more done because meaning making was very helpful individuals to be ableto face the experience of a life full of stress (Park, 2010), namely through intraphysic cognitive processes or cognitive adaptation, in which individuals transform the meaning of the experience that is full of stress (Park, 2005). However,in Indonesia itself, not much research that raised the topic of making meaning, but a lot of situations, events or disasters which often causes individuals to severe stress. The purpose of this study was to explore information on the meaningmaking that is done when people experience stressful events. Data obtainedfrom 224 students who fill the open questions about the events that maketheir lives become filled with stress, whether they do coping of meaning makingand content of meaning making that is usually used. The data that were obtainedthen categorized and analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results and implicationsof this research will be further discussed.