摘要：Keyword: Key Word : selft-esteem, experienced, retirementAbstrack:ABSTRACT :Crisis that hit Indonesia in the year 1997 / 1998 causing long result for the people of Indonesia. Prices of basic commodities are high, all service rates rise, the number of private banks into liquidation and for large companies and state enterprises which do require early retirement to some employees. Early retirement is no longer work earlier than his service time which has been set. As a result of this early retirement will be felt on the husband who acts as head of the family. Where the financial terms required to meet the needs of the family. So also with the surrounding environment, whether environmental or group can receive individual or not, and it can affect self-esteem. Self-esteem is a psychological condition as a result of the evaluation or assessment of the individual against himself produced a psychological condition that a positive or negative that is in him. The writing of this research aims to find the answer to the question what the research subject of the picture is worth a man who had retired early, why the subject of self-esteem men who suffer from early retirement or less, and how the process of self development is the subject of men who suffer from early retirement so that be high or low. This research data obtained from two subjects who experienced early retirement. From the results of data analysis performed, the obtained conclusion that early retirement does not make a person’s self-esteem is low.
