Subjective Welfare on Micro-Scale Entrepreneurs in Yogyakarta Viewed from Social Support Colleagues

In the middle of the declining of formal employment and the decreasing of ideal positions in the
working fields, entrepreneurship becomes an interesting topic to talk about. In Indonesian economy, micro
and small-scale enterprises are classified into the real sector which has a high resistance against the global
crisis. This study was conducted to obtain empirical evidence, whether social support from colleagues has a
positive and significant impact on subjective welfare of micro and small entrepreneurs in Yogyakarta. The
subjects of this study were the micro-scale entrepreneurs living in Yogyakarta as many as 70 people by the
criteria that are pursuant to the Regulations Number 9 Year 1995 about Small-scale Business. The method
of data collection used scales; Scale of Subjective Welfare and Scale of Colleague Social Support, while the
method of hypothesis testing used the correlation of Product Moment proposed by Karl Pearson. The
results of analysis showed r = 0.379 (p <0.01) which indicated that there was a significant relationship
between social support from colleagues and subjective welfare of micro and small-scale entrepreneurs in
Yogyakarta. R2 = 0.144 means that social support from colleagues contributed 14.4% to the subjective
welfare of micro and small-scale entrepreneurs in Yogyakarta. While 85.6% were influenced by other
variables