Kesepian pemilik hewan peliharaan yang tinggal terpisah dari keluarga

Abstract

Loneliness is a phenomenon often occurs in humans. It has negative effects on welfare. Students in the early stages of adult development are to build close relationships (intimate) and build affiliations that make susceptible to loneliness if they cannot able to complete the task of development. The susceptibility increases by being apart of family during adult development. Many researchs showed that public interest in raising pet inclined. This research was aimed to describe loneliness feature of students who raising pet and living apart from their family. This was qualitative and descriptive research and used Revised University of California, Los AngelesLoneliness Scale(R-UCLALoneliness Scale). It involved 50 students who raising pet and living apart from their family. Here we showed that 36 students experienced low categoric loneliness while 14 students had high category.

Keywords

• loneliness
• pet