Managing Mental Health and Factors Related to Developing a Productive Workplace for Migrant Workers in Jakarta

Abstract

Mental illness or mental health has significantly increased nowadays, including and not limited to employees in Jakarta. If the factors that affect Mental Health can be identified, better treatment can be made. The aim of this study is to find the right treatment for people in the workplace who are mentally ill, by knowing the factor that mostly affect them and how to manage that in such a manner so that it will not cause more severe illness. Method employed in this study was two step clustering method and then analyzed with regression and classification tree. The variables that characterize the mental health illness are worry, anxiety, sadness, like solitude, swing emotion, crying without reason, live in fantasy, preferring to be alone, inferiority, passion, feel strange, anger, strange voices, lazy, desire to sleep, followed by shadow, and uselessness. By these variables, respondents are categorized into low and high level. The variables that thought affect are gender, parents’ marriage, family problems, using gadgets, disappointment, trauma, low economic, extrinsic and intrinsic factors, and smartphone addiction. This study has pointed out that the variable that most influences is disappointment and others are using gadgets, smartphone addiction, low economic, and parent marriage.