PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF EMPLOYEES IN JAVA, INDONESIA

Performance is the main indicator for the company to measure productivity. Only productive employees will be retained by the company. Therefore competition in the professional world forces employees to work hard. They often neglect their Psychological Well-Being (PWB), whereas PWB is proved to correlate with work performance and organization’s effectiveness (Wright and Cropanzo in Robertson and Cooper, 2009). PWB is when a person shows that he is healthy, well, functions optimally and succeed despite life’s existential challenges (Ryff and Keyes, 1995). Ryff (1995) mentioned several factors that affect PWB, including age, gender, and culture. This study aims to obtain an overview of PWB of employees working in Java, Indonesia. A quantitative approach is done by distributing the PWB Scale to 544 employees in six provinces. The result shows that the PWB is above average (mean= 3.49). According to gender, there is a significant difference between the PWB of male and female employees (p<0.05). Also, employees who are in the range of 26-30 years old show better PWB (mean = 3.56) than older employees. We concluded that the PWB of employees in Java Island, Indonesia, is high. Male employees show better PWB than female (mean = 3.50). It indicates that male employees perceive that the opportunity to be more well-being are given more than female in their work place. Furthermore, PWB increases until when employees are 30 years and decreases as they grow older.  It indicates that the younger ones perceive more opportunity to be well-being than older employees.