FACTORS AFFECTING PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING AMONG POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS UNDER INDONESIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP

Abstract

Issue concerning academic stress, coping and social cultural adaptation among university students has driven to the need of deep understanding about factors that affect their psychological well-being. A correlational research design was used in this study. The researcher used two softwares to analyze the study data, namely IBM SPSS Statistics 23 and SmartPLS 3 (Partial Least Squares). The numbers of respondents in this study were 424 people. The sample determination in this study was using a simple random sampling technique. This study identified the influence of academic stress factors, coping and social cultural adaptation on psychological well-being of Indonesian postgraduate students, as well as produced a conceptual model that correlates between independent variables and dependent variable in this study. Thus, it can be concluded that academic stress, coping and social cultural adaptation have a significant influence on the psychological well-being of Indonesian postgraduatestudents. Hopefully, the results of this study can significantly contribute to the management of higher education, educators and professional counselors to pay more attention to the issue of academic stress experienced by postgraduate university students.