Kesejahteraan subjektif dan penyesuaian diri terhadap kehidupan kampus pada mahasiswa baru

In order to achieve success in college, students need to have fine adjustment skills. This study aims to describe college adjustment and subjective well being in freshman, as well as the relationship between those two variables. This research is a quantitative study with a cross sectional design, which was conducted on 171 freshman of class 2022 at Malahayati University. The research instrument used in this study were Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ) to measure college adjusment and the College Student Subjective Well Being Questionnaire (CSSWQ) to measure subjective well being. The data in the study were analyzed using Pearson’s correllation. The result of this study indicate that most students have moderate college adjustment and subjective wellbeing. Furthermore, a significant positive correlation was found between college student subjective well being and college adjustment, where there was a 15,4% variance of college adjustment that could be explained by college student subjective well being. Implication of this study is that subjective well being plays a significant role in adjustment to college life on freshman.