Peran dukungan sosial terhadap optimisme pada cancer survivor di rumah sakit islam khadijah Palembang

Abstract

The research aims to determine the role of social support to optimism on cancer survivor at Siti Khadijah Islamic Hospital Palembang. The hypothesis of this research has a role of social support to optimism on cancer survivor at Siti Khadijah Islamic Hospital Palembang. The research uses non-probability sampling which is saturated sampling, 93 cancer survivors at Siti Khadijah Islamic Hospital Palembang become the subject. Optimism and social support cancer survivors was measured by the scale of social support and optimism, with reference to the types of social support from House (Smet, 1994) and the dimensions of optimism from Seligman (2006). Data analyzed using simple regression analysis. The results of this research indicate social support has a role to optimism that is obtained a significance level of 0,000 (p <0.05) with R square value of 0.408, which means social support has a 40,8% role to optimism and the remaining 59,2% was influenced by other factors.

Keywords

• cancer survivor
• optimism
• social support