THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OPTIMISM ANDPSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF CLASS X STUDENTSSMAN1GONDANG

ABSTRACT:. Adolescence is a period of risky behavior. The risky behaviors referred to here are thingsthatbecome stressors for adolescents that have a negative impact on their psychological well-being. Theexistence ofstressors that make adolescents, especially students, become a lot of pressure both mentally andacademicallyrequires students to be able to maintain their psychological well-being well in stressful situations.From severalprevious studies, it was found that optimism is positively related to psychological well-being andcan improvestudents’ psychological well-being. However, the results of previous studies also show differentresults, thereforeresearchers want to know the relationship between optimism and the psychological well-beingof students ofSMAN1Gondang.Theresultsoftheresearchthathasbeendoneshowthatthesignificancevalueobtainedis0.00 which means that optimism is correlated with psychological well-being because it has a sig value<0.05.Meanwhile, when viewed from the Pearson value, the relationship between optimism and psychologicalwell-being has a positive relationship, which means that if optimism increases, psychological well-being alsoincreases.Optimismtowardspsychologicalwell-beinghasastrongcorrelationasevidencedbythePearsonvalueof0.711.

Keywords-psychologicalwell-being,optimism,adolescence