PENGARUH SELF HELP GROUP TERHADAP TINGKAT STRESS DAN KOPING PADA REMAJA

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Master Program in Nursing Community Nursing Specialty Department of Nursing Science Faculty of Medicine Diponegoro University July 2018 ABSTRACT Purnomo Effects of Self-Help Group on Stress Level and Coping in Adolescents xvii + 140 pages + 8 table + 6 figures + 13 appendices Stress is a common phenomenon occurring during adolescence which causes physical and psychological problems. One of the causes of stress is the academic pressure. The stress in adolescents will affect their health and academic abilities. Self-help group is an intervention which can be used to assist adolescents in reducing stress and increase their constructive copings. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of self-help group on stress level and copings in adolescents. This study used a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design with a control group. The numbers of samples was 282 participants, consisting of 141 in control group and 141 in intervention group, recruited using stratified random sampling. Data were collected using depression, anxiety and stress (DASS-42) and adolescent coping orientation for problem experience (A-COPE) questionnaires, and analyzed using Pearson’s correlational product moments. The results showed significant differences in the decrease of stress level between the control group (p=0.411) and the intervention group (p=0.006). Regarding the analysis of problem focused coping, there were significant differences in the increase of coping with (p=0.298) in the control group and (p=0.000) in the intervention group. At the same time, there were significant differences in the decrease of the emotional focused coping between the control group with (p=0.395) and the intervention group with (p=0.000). The results of this study indicated that self-help group could reduce stress level and increase constructive copings in adolescents. Keywords: Coping, Adolescent, Self Help Group, Stress Level References: 177 (2009-2017)