The increasing public awareness of the importance of education has caused the competition to enter
higher education to become more intense, especially in specific majors such as medicine. Students
who have yet to be accepted into the desired major then choose to take a gap year. Only some studies
have discussed the condition of students who take gap years in Indonesia. However, it is known that
individuals who experience fear of failure will experience disorders at the level of mental health,
including subjective well-being. This study aims to determine the relationship between fear of failure
and subjective well-being in students who take a gap year. The research subjects involved gap year
students aged 18-20 (N=60). Data collection was carried out using the SWB and PFAI scales. The
analysis method uses product-moment correlation from Pearson. The results of the analysis obtained
a value (rxy) = -0.737 (p<0.05). This shows that the relationship between fear of failure and subjective
well-being has a negative correlation. It was found that the determination coefficient symbolized by
R² was 0.543, which proves that the fear of failure variable can have an influence of 54.3% on the
subjective well-being variable, while other factors influence 45.7%.