The Journey to Adulthood: A Study of The Relationship between Self-Acceptance and Quarter Life Crisis in Emerging Adulthood

Abstract

The hardest transition phase in human development is the transition from adolescence to adulthood, which is often referred to as emerging adulthood. This emerging adulthood phase will determine the success of the next phases of development. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between self-acceptance and quarter life crisis in emerging adulthood. The hypothesis proposed to be tested in this study is that there is a negative relationship between self-acceptance and Quarter Life Crisis in emerging adulthood. The subjects in this study were students with active college status who had a vulnerable age of 18-25 years old and were preparing a thesis. Data collection in this study used a quarter life crisis scale and a self-acceptance scale. The data analysis method used is Pearson correlation analysis. Based on the results of product moment analysis with a correlation coefficient (rxy) = -0.242 with p = 0.015 (p < 0.050) based on the responses of 100 participants. This shows that there is a negative relationship between self-acceptance and quarter life crisis in students who are in emerging adulthood. Analysis of the coefficient of determination (R2) of this study, which was obtained at 0.59, showed that the self-acceptance variable provided 5.9% of the effective contribution to the quarter life crisis variable, with the remaining 94.1% contributed by other variables.

Keywords: quarter life crisis, self-acceptance, emerging adulthood