Hubungan Antara Dukungan Sosial Dengan Penyesuaian Diri Pada Mahasiswa Rantau Yang Berdomisili Di Dormitory Unika Atma Jaya

Social support is the tangible act of assistance that an individual receives from others that makes an individual feel loved, cared for, valued, respected, and regarded as part of a group which consists of aspects of emotional support, appreciation support, instrumental support, informational support, and social network support. Self-adjustment is an individual's effort to align themselves with their environment in order to achieve happiness without feeling pressured which consists of aspects of emotional maturity, intellectual maturity, social maturity, and responsibility. This study is a correlation study that aims to determine the level of social support and self-adjustment to overseas students residing in the dormitory of Atma Jaya Catholic University, as well determine the relationship between social support and self-adjustment to overseas students residing in the dormitory of Atma Jaya Catholic University. The study included 81 participants consisting of students from the 2020, 2021, and 2022 cohorts. The data collection technique used is an instrument in the form of a questionnaire. The social support instrument consists of 60 statements, with 52 of them being declared valid and a reliability coefficient of 0.935. The self-adjustment instrument consists of 96 statements, with 87 of them being declared valid and a reliability coefficient of 0.970. The result of correlation analysis between the social support variable and the self-adjustment variable resulted in a correlation of 0.693 with a p-value <0.001, which is smaller than the significance level that has been specified by the researcher as 0.05. Based on the correlation results, it can be concluded that there is a significant positive correlation between social support and self-adjustment among out-of-town students residing in the Unika Atma Jaya dormitory. Thus, it can be concluded that the higher the social support received, the higher the self-adjustment of the dormitory students at Unika Atma Jaya, and vice versa. Variable social support contributed 48% to variables self-adjustment. The dormitory staff at Unika Atma Jaya are recommended to organize interactive activities between students and staff, as well as among students themselves, to enhance emotional support and social maturity. Students are encouraged to provide social support to each other to help improve self-adjustment.