Regulasi Emosi pada Istri yang Tertular HIV/AIDS

Abstract

This study aims to reveal the emotional regulation experience of a wife who is infected with HIV/AIDS. Emotional regulation is an intrinsic and extrinsic process that can control and adjust the emotions that emerge at the right intensity level to achieve a goal that includes the ability to regulate feelings, reactions, physiological, ways of thinking and emotional responses and can rapidly calm down after losing control for perceived emotions. This study uses qualitative research methods with phenomenological research types. Respondents consisted of 3 people. Data collection techniques used in this study are interviews and observations. The results of this study show that the three respondents were influenced by several factors, including: age, gender, environment, religiosity, personality, parenting, and culture. Factors that are extremely dominant on the three respondents are religiosity. These three respondents passed several processes in carrying out emotional regulation, including; Situation Selection, Situation Modification, Attention Deployment, Cognitive Change, Response Modulation. Emotional regulation aspect; Strategies to emotion Regulation (Strategies), Engaging in goals directed behavior (Goals), Control emotional responses (Impulse), Acceptance of emotional response (Acceptance). Respondents 1 and 3 are very prominent in the Acceptance of emotional response (Acceptance) aspect or accept these events and problems, when negative emotions arise. In contrast to respondent 2, the most prominent aspect is the strategy to emotion regulation (Strategies) or belief to be able to overcome problems by reducing negative emotions.