Loneliness Among International Students In Universitas Airlangga
In order to understand the living situation based on international students studying in the Universitas Airlangga, this study aims to 1) investigate if international students in UNAIR experience loneliness as a problem, and requiring in-depth psychological understanding of loneliness among them,...
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| Summary: | In order to understand the living situation based on international students
studying in the Universitas Airlangga, this study aims to 1) investigate if
international students in UNAIR experience loneliness as a problem, and
requiring in-depth psychological understanding of loneliness among them, 2) to
identify the types of loneliness among the international students, 3) to discover the
factors related to loneliness among the international students, and 4) to
investigate their coping strategies, especially in difficult times when they are
experiencing loneliness. According to Weiss (in Vangelisti & Perlman, 2006)
loneliness is differentiated into emotional loneliness and social loneliness.
The method used in this research is the qualitative research intrinsic case
study method with the theory driven thematic analysis. This study involves four
participants which are Kemitraan Negara Berkembang scholarship students in
the Universitas Airlangga. The data was collected through interviews and the
technique for stabilizing the research credibility went through data triangulation
which a significant other is involved as an adding information resource.
In this research all four participant mentioned that they do experience
loneliness. Each subject has similarities when experiencing emotional loneliness
because of the distance or absence of their family or love ones and most of all the
absence of their family attachment. For case 1 and 2 the long distance
relationship with their partner also influence emotional loneliness, while case 3
and 4 singleness is related to emotional loneliness. Other similarities for
emotional loneliness in case 1 and 2 is experiencing racism, feeling abandoned by
IOP. Similarities for case 2 and 3 are feeling detached from family. Similarities
for all 4 cases because of having the Indonesian language problem they
experience emotional loneliness. The uniqueness of case 4 is, he can easily adapt
emotionally well than the 3 other cases. According to social loneliness case 1, 2,
3, does not socially integrate well with the Indonesians and experience lack of
friendship, companionship, people around, while case 4 is easily integrating in
the society but only feel lack of companionship because others don’t understand
his ideas. Similarities according to maladaptive coping strategies for case 1, 2, 3
is that they fail to increase social relationships with Indonesians, while case 4
cope well in self managing loneliness, increasing social relationships, and seeking
for help personally. |
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