Cultural Communication and Socialization Journal (CCSJ) 2(2) (2021) 58-62 Quick Response Code Access this article online Website: www.ccsj.com.my DOI: 10.26480/cssj.02.2021.58.62 Cite the Article: Nur’aeni, Nur’aenia, Furqanul Azies, and Dyah Siti Septiningsih (2021). Positive Parenting Program (Triple P) in Improving Subjective Well-Being of Mothers with Deaf Children. Cultural Communication and Socialization Journal, 2(2): 58-62. ISSN: 2735-0428 (Online) CODEN: CCSJAJ Cultural Communication and Socialization Journal (CCSJ) DOI: http://doi.org/10.26480/cssj.02.2021.58.62 RESEARCH ARTICLE POSITIVE PARENTING PROGRAM (TRIPLE P) IN IMPROVING SUBJECTIVE WELL- BEING OF MOTHERS WITH DEAF CHILDREN Nur’aeni, Nur’aeni a* , Furqanul Azies b , and Dyah Siti Septiningsih c a Faculty of Psychology, University of Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, Indonesia b The Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, Indonesia c Faculty of Psychology, University of Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, Indonesia *Corresponding Author Email: nuraeni@ump.ac.id This is an open access journal distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited ARTICLE DETAILS ABSTRACT Article History: Received 24 July 2021 Accepted 29 August 2021 Available online 12 September 2021 Subjective well-being is one indicator of an individual's or a community's quality of life. Individual life is said to have quality, not only in terms of economic freedom to choose and achieve what one desires, or in terms of social freedom to have the things one desires, but also in terms of individual sentiments of pleasure and displeasure, contentment, and discontent. If an individual frequently experiences happy feelings and achieves satisfaction in his life, this is evidence of subjective well-being. It is believed that moms of deaf children will achieve subjective well-being, allowing them to best cater for or service their children's needs. The fact is that some mothers of deaf children are dissatisfied with their life in general. Mothers feel that their children become financial burdens to the family. The aim of the study was to see if the positive parenting program (Triple P) could improve mothers' subjective well-being in children with hearing impairment. Mothers with hearing- impaired children who attended SLB B Yakut Purwokerto a total of 32 participants were the research subjects. The results of the subjective well-being scale's difference power test reveal that there are seven invalid items/statements and ten valid items/statements, implying that the ten items/statements were employed to collect subjective well-being data. The t-test of pre-test to post-test results shows that the positive parenting program is successful in improving the subjective well-being of mothers who had deaf children. KEYWORDS Subjective Well-being, Positive Parenting. 1. INTRODUCTION The commitment to serve children with special needs, particularly deaf children, is fulfilled not only by the school where the children are enrolled but also by their parents, particularly mothers, who must accompany and serve deaf children at home. At home, a mother's attempts to serve her children should be done with genuine affection and to the best of her ability. One of the mothers’ principles for helping children at home is their feeling good about themselves. Accepting that their child is deaf, on the other hand, is an extremely challenging emotional experience for mothers (Kingston, 2007). According to Syafei (2007), having a deaf child is one of the internal impediments to fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities of a mother. The experience of parents of children with hearing impairment differs depending on a variety of circumstances, such as the type and degree of the deafness and whether or not the barrier is plainly evident to others (O'Reilly, 2010). Pilot research of four (four) mothers of deaf children revealed that mothers were generally dissatisfied with their life. Mothers believe their deaf children are a burden to the family, and even extended families fail to admit that one of their members is deaf. They regard their siblings as an embarrassment to the rest of the family. Mothers with deaf children are humiliated, dissatisfied, and alone in guiding and accompanying their children as a result of this condition. The mothers were apprehensive and concerned about her child's futures. This demonstrates that the mothers were unhappy and unsatisfied with their lives as a result of their deaf children's condition. (Interview, July 17, 2021). Previous research and preliminary investigations have shown that mothers of deaf children are unhappy. Diener (2005) defines happiness as subjective well-being, which may be used to assess a person's and society's quality of life in addition to economic and social variables. A person's life is referred to as being qualified not only in terms of economics, where he can have and obtain what he desires to satisfy his desires, or socially, where a person obtains what he desires, such as equality or security, but also in terms of quality of life, which is influenced by one's feelings toward pleasure and displeasure, satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Based on these issues, the problem can be formulated "Is the positive parenting program effective to improve the subjective well-being of mothers with deaf children. Thus, the aim of this research is to test or to examine the effectiveness of the positive parenting program on the improvement of subjective well-being in mothers with deaf children.