Religious Coping Strategy Management on Social Cultural Pressure in Single Mother

Becomes a single parent for a woman is not an easy task. Being a single mother holds a very big responsibility because she has to take care of the children alone, work to meet their needs economically, and giving children the education they deserves, as well as having social responsibility as a member of the community. Single mother usually have to deal with a lot of responsibility within themselves, family and society and having lots of burden that cause them to have internal conflict and suffer from psychological pressure. They also have to face stigma from society, violence, satire and views of society based on myths, stereotypes, prejudices regarding on their status. To manage, reduce or eliminate these various pressures, the efforts made called religious coping strategies. The purpose of this study was to examine religious coping strategies carried out by single mothers. This study used a qualitative approach with five subjects to single parent, which are civil servants (PNS) in the field of education in Bali. Data collected by semi-structured interviews and document studies. The results of the study show that in a stressful situation, religious coping strategies management used by single mothers are highly dependent on individual needs, age and influence of cultural background. For this reason, individuals use religious coping strategy management by combining strategies: (1) Self-directing coping strategy, (2) Deferring coping strategy, and (3) Collaborative coping strategy. Keywords: religious coping strategy management, socio-cultural pressures, single mothers.