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  • The increasing of life expectancy led to a growing of elderly. The increasing number of elderly followed by increasing physical and psychological health problems. One of the psychological issues that arise are mental emosional disorder. The way to do to overcome mental emotional disorder is with high religiosity. The purpose of this study was to know the relationship between religiosity grade and mental emotional disorders in the elderly in Panti Werdha Hargo Dedali Surabaya. The design of this study was correlation with 16 sample size of elderly who were taken by using total sampling technique. Independent variable of this study was religiosity grade. Dependent variabel was mental emosional disorder. Data were taken using the questionnaire then analyzed with Spearman’s rho statistic test. The results of 16 respondents showed that majority respondents on 68,75% had high religiosity grade and almost majority respondents on 75% suffered mild mental emotional disorder. The results using spearmant’s rho test produced p-value=0,001 (<0,005) with a correlation coefficient of -0,744 means that there has correlation between religousity with mental emotional disorder in the elderly. The conclusion of this study that the religiosity has corelation with mental emotional disorder in elderly. Further studies should involve larger respondents and better measurement tools to obtain more accurate results.