Descriptive study of subjective well-being on medium adult citizens in over populated area of Rt/Rw 09/09 Cicadas Sukamulya Cibeunying Kidul district Bandung city.

Abstract

Cicadas is the third over populated area in south east ASIA, and RT 09/09 is the most over populated area in Cicadas with thereabouts 180 people in one RT in 200x200 meter area wide. The over populated area is supported by minimum public facilities, low social economy level, improper environment to be a habitation. The objective of this study is to describe the subjective well-being level on medium adult citizens who live in the area. The method used is descriptive study with 32 people as the sample of population in RT 09/09 Cicadas. The instruments used are Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLF) by Diener, et al (1993) and Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) by Watson in 1988. There are 5 items of SWLF and 20 items of PANAS are valid. The reability of the instrument used is 0.901, 0.792, 0.933 in each instrument. The results show that they have high subjective well-being, and the precentage of each profile is 68,75% of citizens are in high SWB category, and 31,25% of citizens are in low SWB category.