Pengaruh Komunitas Virtual Video Game terhadap Stres Akademik dengan Coping Mechanism sebagai Variabel Moderator
Della Anindhita Cahyarani, Prof. Ir. Budi Hartono, S.T., MPM, Ph.D., IPU., ASEAN Eng.
2023 | Skripsi | TEKNIK INDUSTRI
Academic stress has been a problem that students have often faced for a long time. Academic stress has a negative impact on life, including college life. Therefore, each individual will try to find adaptive resources to manage perceived academic stress, which comes from internal (resilience) and external (social support). Students also have coping mechanisms to manage the stress they feel. On the other hand, the effects of massive technological developments create virtual spaces for various communities, such as video games. Previous research said that virtual video game communities are able to provide the availability of social support needed by students. This research aims to analyze whether coping mechanisms are able to moderate social support from virtual communities and resilience as adaptive resources with academic stress.
This research used a questionnaire as an instrument which was adapted from past studies. The survey was conducted by cross sectional with purposive sampling method. Questionnaires were distributed through social media and the sample obtained was 114. Multivariate statistics played a role in this research using the Moderated Regression Analysis method.
The findings of this research indicate that the first and second hypotheses were successfully supported by empirical data. The first hypothesis explains that the presence of adaptive resources in virtual communities of video game in the form of social support and resilience is significantly related to academic stress. Increasing adaptive resources will reduce academic stress felt by students. Meanwhile, the second hypothesis involves the moderating effect of coping mechanisms that are able to influence adaptive resource relationships in virtual communities of video game in the form of social support and resilience with academic stress. The coping mechanism positively moderates the relationship between the two so that an increase in adaptive resources in the virtual community is followed by an increase in academic stress. The positive direction can occur due to characteristics of person, such as personality which causing a unidirectional relationship.
Kata Kunci : Stres Akademik, Dukungan Sosial, Resiliensi, Komunitas Virtual, Moderated Regression Analysis