Emotional balance and stress of students who take private tutoring for entrance selection to state universities in Indonesia

The objective of this study is to identify emotional balance and stress in students who take private tutoring for state university tryouts. The convenience sample consisted of 384 students (mean age=16.78, standard deviation=0.42) from whom student data were taken from the emotional balance instrument (positive and negative dimensions) and stress instrument (pressure from study, workload, worry about grades, self-expectation, and despondency dimensions). These results explain that emotional balance is negatively correlated with each dimension of stress, the majority of which is in the moderate category, and negative emotions are positively correlated with each dimension of stress, the majority of which is in the moderate category. In general, the null hypothesis is rejected, but there will be differences in the average emotional balance and stress scores among students based on gender. Recommendations and limitations of the study are explained at the end.