This study aims to know emotion regulation strategies and religious coping of inmates in Clas II A women’s prison of Bulu Semarang. Staying at detention center or prison definitely makes someone stress and automatically influences to their social life, health-physics, and psychic. Moreover for new inmates (unrecidivist), the effect can be worse. The new athmosphere of the jail can make them feel meaningless, useless, bore, and give up. It means they get both of physics and psychology punishment. Therefore the inmates should be able to control their emotion and be adaptive in their ‘new live’. This ability is called emotion regulation. Surely, the good ability will help them to face many kinds of stressors in their life.
This study describes emotion regulation strategies and religious coping of women inmates because as known in most of the society, the women are more sensitive than the men. The method of this research is qualitative. The Informants of this study are inmates of Clas II A women’s prison of Bulu Semarang which taken by random system. The researcher finds that the inmates will be easier to face stressors if they have good-emotion regulation, such as having positive thinking and controlling their attitude and feeling. But if they can not regulate their emotion well, they will be easy to feel anxiety, depression and distress. They are also will be more aggresive.
In another hand, if they choose to use positive religious coping when they are in difficulty that they will be closer to Allah, belief, calmness and optimistic facing their future. While the other inmates who have lower religious, or they do not believe in God and His help, they will be easy to feel worry, depression, aggressive, thankless, unsatisfied to Allah and the scholar suggestion, so their quality of life, psychic and social life are worse than the first party.