THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SEXUAL EXPRESSION AND SELFESTEEM IN INTERMEDIKA FOUNDATION, CENTRAL JAKARTA 2015

Abstract

Gay is a sexual orientation that is still negatively considered by the public. Since the community commonly considers that men should pair women.  Therefore, gays easily get negative stigma and discrimination from the community resulting in self-esteem disorder. Sexual expression is the gender role of someone despite the biological sex. This research aims at to understand the correlation between sexual expression and low self-esteem in Intermedika Foundation, Central Jakarta 2015.  This research uses descriptive correlation with cross-sectional approach. Samples are obtained using purpose sampling technique consisting of 80 respondents. The data is collected using questionnaires and the data analysis is carried out by using chi square analysis. The results of the research do not show any significant correlation between the sexual expression and low self-esteem in Intermedika Foundation, Central Jakarta, 2015 with value (p=0.401, α = <0.05).  Although there is no correlation in this research but this research gives the description on the self-esteem of the gays that most of the respondents, namely 49 persons (48.8%) suffer from severely low self-esteem with (N = 80). Hopefully, this research can serve as the basic data in developing the nursing intervention in the course of overcoming the low self-esteem problem among the gay community.