
 
This is felt because no one motivates them and 
cares about the problems they face. Cohen and Wills 
(in  Elliott  and  Gramling,  1990)  in  their  research 
revealed that individuals who get low social support, 
feel more depressed and anxious when experiencing 
stress. Then, Dewi (2015) added in her research that 
social support has a close relationship with resilience 
in  mothers  who  have  children  with  cancer  of 
retinoblastoma  at  the  Loving  Cancer  Hospital  in 
Bandung. The higher the social support, the higher 
the degree of resilience the mother has, conversely the 
lower  the  social  support  the  lower  the  degree  of 
resilience the mother has. 
In addition,  the  results  of  this  study obtained  a 
quadratic correlation coefficient (r2) is 0.731. That is, 
social  support  has  a  contribution  of  73.1%  of 
resilience, and the remaining 26.9% is influenced by 
other factors not examined in this study. It shows that 
social  support  has  a  very  large  contribution  for 
women who experience infertility to make them feel 
strong when facing feelings of decline due to stigma 
obtained from the environment or negative judgments 
from others, as seen as women who are not normal, 
useless,  infertile,  or  the  weakness  of  the  person 
because it is closely related to the nature of women 
that must be able to contain and give birth. 
These  results  are  in  line  with  Primandari's 
research  (2014)  which  revealed  that  subjects  who 
have  high  resilience  are  characterized  by  people 
taking part in their lives so that subjects can carry out 
their duties and responsibilities well and believe the 
situation they are facing can be passed well. While 
subjects who have low resilience are characterized by 
the absence of people who can carry out their roles 
properly so that subjects cannot see well that they are 
important in life. This causes the subject to not be able 
to carry out the task properly and is not sure of the 
situation at hand. 
 This can also be explained based on the results of 
the multiple regression calculation of the dimensions 
of social support for resilience, which can be seen in 
table 4. 
Based on table 4, it can be seen that the dimension 
of social support that has an influence on resilience (p 
<0.05)  is  the  instrumental  support  dimension  (sig. 
0.001)  and  companionship  support  dimension  (sig. 
0,000). While the dimensions of social support that 
have  no  effect  on  resilience  (p>  0.05)  are  the 
dimensions of emotional support (sig. 0.070) and the 
dimensions  of  informational  support  (sig.  0.145). 
Since the emotional dimension is closely related to 
resilience,  the  multiple  regression  equation  is 
recalculated  by  only  eliminating  the  informational 
support dimension, with the results shown in table 5. 
Table  4:  Results  of  Multiple  Regression  of  dimensions 
Social Support with Resilience. 
Table  5:  Results  of  Multiple  Regression  of  dimensions 
Social  Support  with  Resilience  after  Elimination  of  the 
Informational Support dimension. 
 
Based on table 5 above, it appears that there is a 
change  in  the  value  of  sig.  dimensions  of  social 
support, so that the three dimensions of social support 
have an effect on resilience (p <0.05).  
According  to  Pearson  product-moment 
correlation,  the  highest  emotional  dimension 
correlation  level  is  0.815  followed  by  the  level  of 
companionship  correlation  0.790  and  instrumental 
0.749. 
The result above is in accordance with Cutrona, 
Gardner, and Uchino's theory (in Sarafino and Smith, 
2011)  which  says  emotional  support  is  a  form  of 
support  delivered  through  empathy,  care,  attention, 
appreciation, and positive judgment about a person's 
ideas or feelings so that he feels comfortable, feels 
loved and feels cared for when dealing with various 
pressing problems in life. So, women who experience 
infertility and get emotional support from their family 
and  surrounding  environment,  they  will  have  high 
self-confidence,  feel  comfortable,  feel  loved,  and 
make infertile women can see a positive value in him. 
They do not see themselves as someone who is alone 
in dealing with problems that arise due to infertility 
problems  experienced,  to  feel  valued  and  still  be 
loved by others. In addition, emotional support from 
family  and  the  environment  also  makes  them  feel 
strong,  optimistic,  able  to  think  rationally  and  not 
blame themselves or the conditions they experience. 
They will be able to overcome the problems faced and 
take lessons from each incident experienced. This is 
in line with research by Titisari (2017) which shows 
that the higher the family social support that is given 
and felt, the higher the level of resilience in kidney 
failure patients undergoing hemodialysis therapy. In 
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