Perbedaan Coping Stress Ditinjau dari Jenis Kelamin pada Penderita Kanker

Abstract

Coping with stress is an effort that individuals do to reduce or overcome the stress posed by a source of stress that is considered to overload an individual. The study aims to determine the difference between gender and cancer in patients. The population in this study was a cancer sufferer at Pusat Haji Adam Malik General Hospital and samples used in this study as much as 50 cancer patients. The methods used in this research are quantitative methods and are compiled based on a Guttman scale consisting of 2 stress coping with strategies namely problem focused coping with and emotion focused coping with. In line with the discussion on the foundation of the theory, the hypothesis presented in this study is that there is a difference in coping with with stress between men and women. The data analysis techniques used in this study are T-test techniques. Analysis results are known that there is a difference in the stress coping with between male and female cancers seen from the correlation value T-test = 3.397 with a significant 0.000 (P < 0.05). Based on the results of the analysis of data conducted, obtained the results that there is a difference in the stress coping with between male and female cancers where, coping with stress on males categorized moderate (Mean empirical = 15.68 > Mean hypothetics = 14.5 Where the second difference mean less than the SD Nila = 3.376) and the stress coping with in high-categorized females (Mean empirical = 29.00 > Mean hypothetics = 14.5 where the second difference mean exceeding the value of SD = 7.597).