Stress Level and Coping Strategies Among Nursing Students Engaged in Student Union

Abstract

Extracurricular activities or student union is a means for students to develop their interests, talents, and potentials. Student involvement in the student union can cause stress such as pressure to accomplish tasks and responsibilities within the limited time period, besides stressors from curricular tasks. Aim of this study was to describe stress and coping strategies Among students engaged in student union. This study used a cross-sectional descriptive method using accidental sampling Consist of 87 respondents. Data Collected used DASS stress levels and Brief COPE for coping strategies. Result Showed that most of respondents experience stress in a normal stress level by 44.8%. Religious was the highest average value (6:06) of coping strategies used by students. Its needed for student engaged in student union to learn and practice effective coping strategies to deal with high stressors as multiple tasking student. Keywords: Level of Stress, Coping Strategies, Student Union