Open AccessWomen’s Support in Resilience of Online Taxi Drivers’ Families in Jakarta During Covid-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Dhita Ayu Pradnyapasa,
Renny Nurhasana,
Ni Made Shellasih,
Anita Siti Fatonah,
Fadhilah Rizky Ningtyas
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal the winners
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2541-2388
pISSN - 1412-1212
DOI - 10.21512/tw.v22i2.7025
Subject(s) - family resilience , resilience (materials science) , pandemic , covid-19 , psychological resilience , data collection , social support , psychology , business , sociology , social psychology , medicine , social science , physics , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , thermodynamics
The research objective was to assess the women’s support to maintain the resilience of online taxi drivers’ families in Jakarta during COVID-19 pandemic using qualitative methods. Data collection method was completed by conducting interview with four participants, who are the wives of online taxi-bike drivers. Four dimensions were believed to be important for family resilience within the pandemic, namely women’s support to integrity variable, physical endurance, economic resilience, and social-psychological resilience. The research finds various important women’s support in maintaining the family resilience during COVID-19 pandemic. It is found that women as wives are able to retain good communication between family members, provide nutritious food for family members, support economic resilience by minimizing expenditures, manage to teach children at home while taking care of younger babies, and so forth. The research limitation is on the variability of the participants. It is suggested that further research implement quantitative methods to gain more data and expand the number of participants for more exploration.