Hubungan Antara Dukungan Sosial Dengan Penyesuaian Diri Pada Mahasiswa Thailand Di Universitas Islam Riau

The number of Thai students at Riau Islamic University each year tends to increase . Riau Islamic University is one of the universities with the highest number of Thai students in Riau. As a student of foreign differences that exist between cultures , languages, ways of learning and different flavors of food in Indonesia and Thailand require Thai students to adapt . In the process of adaptation of students of Thailand has kemungki nan to undergo adjustment which can complicate the process of adaptation and socialization them . This study intends to examine scientifically the relationship between social support and adaptation to Thai students at Riau Islamic University . Subjects in this study were students / i which originated from Thailand who were taking education lectures at the Islamic University of Riau are still active college as many as 40 students / i by using the technique of sample saturated . The instrument for retrieving data in this study was the scale of social support and the scale of adjustment . Data were analyzed using product moment correlation analysis with the help of SPSS 20.0 for Windows . The results of product moment correlation analysis obtained correlation coefficient of 0.547 with a value of p = 0.000 (p <0.05) which indicates that there is a significant positive relationship between social support and adjustment , meaning that students who have high social support have the possibility of experiencing adjustment high self-esteem too, and vice versa in Thai students at Riau Islamic Universit