Perbedaan Kualitas Hidup Ditinjau dari Status Pernikahan pada Masyarakat di Kelurahan Bantan Medan

Abstract

Basically this study aims to determine and analyze empirically the differences in the quality of life in terms of marital status in the community in Bantan Medan. The study sample were 50 unmarried people in the Bantan Medan and 50 people who were married in Bantan Medan. The hypothesis was: There is a difference in the quality of life in terms of marital status. It is assumed that married people have a higher quality of life than those who are unmarried. This study was arranged based on Likert scale method using a quality of life scale with aspects according to the Cella four main aspects namely Functional Welfare, Physical Welfare, Psychological / Emotional Welfare, and Social Welfare. After analyzing the data, the results of this study are obtained: This result is known by looking at the value or coefficient of difference has a significance of 0.000 <0.050, this means that the significance value obtained is smaller than 0.050. Thus the hypothesis which reads that there is a difference in the quality of life between the status of married and unmarried status, is declared acceptable. Based on the comparison of the two average values (hypothetical and empirical), it can be stated that married quality of life is high because the hypothetical mean value of 90 is lower than the empirical mean value of 118.38 and the quality of unmarried life is low because the hypothetical mean value of 90 is greater than empirical mean value 90.36.