Neuroticism and Gratitude to God as Self-Regulation: Facet Analysis

Everybody wants to have happiness, not to mention students with neuroticism. They often show negative emotions and unhappiness. Gratitude is an important psychological aspect for human beings as gratitude is needed to enhance resilience, adaptive coping style, problem solving skills, effective responses to stressful stimuli and improving positive affect. This research is held to find the neurotic personality’s influence toward gratitude and to find influential facets to gratitude. The data was collected through neurotic personality and gratitude to God questionnaires. The former questionnaire was constructed based on McCrae and Costa theory and the latter one was constructed based on integrated theory of McCullough, Emmons and Tsang and theory from Al Ghazzali. There were 53 students of Psychology Department of Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang participated in this research. The analysis method is regression analysis. The results showed that there is highly significant influence (F=7.137; p =0.00) of neurotic personality toward gratitude. The neurotic personality has 48.2 percentage of gratitude. And impulsivity facet is the best predictor to gratitude.