ANALISIS STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING TENTANG RELASI GENDER, TINGKAT STRES, DAN KUALITAS PERKAWINAN PADA KELUARGA PENERIMA PROGRAM KELUARGA HARAPAN (PKH)

Poverty is one of major socio-economics problems in Indonesia. Poverty level of indonesia in 2009 is 15.42 percent. Therefore, government implements Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH), as one of the poverty alleviation efforts. The purpose of the study was to analyze the influence of gender relations to...

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Main Author: Herien Puspitawati
Format: Article
Language:Indonesian
Published: Pusat Studi Gender dan Anak IAIN Purwokerto 2015-03-01
Series:Yinyang: Jurnal Studi Islam, Gender dan Anak
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Online Access:https://ejournal.uinsaizu.ac.id/index.php/yinyang/article/view/278
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Summary:Poverty is one of major socio-economics problems in Indonesia. Poverty level of indonesia in 2009 is 15.42 percent. Therefore, government implements Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH), as one of the poverty alleviation efforts. The purpose of the study was to analyze the influence of gender relations toward wife’s symptom of stress and marriage quality in PKH family’s receivers. The objectives of the study were: (1) To described the socio-economic and demographic of the family, (2) to know the gender relations, (3) To explained the symptoms of stress, (4) To found out the marriage quality, and (5) To analyzed the factors affecting marriage quality. The respondents were the wives of 131 poor families. This was a cross sectional study which was performed among poor families in Bogor District, West Java province during May to June 2009. Arround three-fourth (75%) of the samples had gender perspectives in good category. Around half (54%) of the samples had imbalanced distributions of roles between husband and wife, that was shown by husband’s dominance in public sectors, and wife’s dominance in domestic sectors. Arround three-fourth (72%) of the samples had mild symptom of stress, and had happiness and satisfaction toward their marriage. Finally, based on Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), it was shown that the marriage quality was directly influenced by the stress’ symptom of wife. Thus, the lower level of wife’s symptom of stress, then the higher the level of marriage quality. Unfortunately, this study could not prove that gender relations effect the marriage quality
ISSN:1907-2791
2548-5385