Hubungan Dukungan Sosial Dengan Coping Stress Pada Mahasiswa Semester Akhir Stambuk 2015 Fakultas Psikologi Universitas Medan Area

Abstract

This study aims to determine the relationship of Social Support with Coping Stress. The subjects of this study were the final semester students of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Medan Area. This type of research uses correlational. This study uses the Social Support instrument and the Coping Stress questionnaire with a Likert scale. The sample in this study amounted to 100 people with a population of 160 people. In this study the analysis used was the Pearson bivariate correlation analysis test where with r = 0.647> 0.197 with a significance coefficient p = 0,000 <0.050 proving there is a relationship between Social Support and Coping Stress. Another result obtained from this study was that Social Support at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Medan Area was indicated moderate with an average empirical value obtained at 78.96 while Coping Stress was indicated moderate with an empric value obtained 80.60. The effective contribution of Coping Stress to Social Support is r2 = 0.418 which is 41.8% and the rest is influenced by other factors such as gender, education level, age development, socioeconomic status, physical health, beliefs or positive outlook, problem solving skills, social skills, and material.