Differences in Stress Management Among Final Year Students as Seen From Their Place of Residence

Abstract

Abstract: This study has the objectives of 1) To determine whether there is a difference in stress management between final year students who live in boarding houses and those with their parents 2) To determine how high the stress management of final year students who live in boarding houses is; 3) To determine how high the stress management of final year students who live with their parents is; 4) To determine which stress management scale items are identified as not optimal and can be proposed as guidance topics. The subjects of this study were final-year Guidance and Counseling students from the 2021 and 2022 intakes who lived in boarding houses and their parents' homes. The number of respondents in this study was 110, with 77 students living in boarding houses and 33 students living at their parents' homes. The scale used was the stress management scale with 30 valid items and a reliability test result using Cronbach's Alpha of 0.935, indicating that this scale was very good. The stress management scale items were tested through assumption tests, namely normality and homogeneity tests. Based on the normality test, the data were not normally distributed and the homogeneity test showed a homogeneous distribution, so the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U Test was used. The results of the study showed that 1) there was a significant difference in stress management between final year students who lived in boarding houses and at their parents' homes with ap value = 0.039. Stress management in final year students who lived at their parents' homes was higher (mean = 71,545) than boarding houses (mean = 66,390); 2) most of the stress management of final year students who live in boarding houses is in the Low category (36%); 3) most of the stress management of final year students who live in their parents' houses is in the Medium category (33%); 4) There are 17 lowest items on the stress management scale that can be used as topics for guidance services.