Peranan Strategi Coping dan Dukungan Sosial dengan Stres Akademik Mahasiswa yang Bekerja Paruh Waktu

This study aims to examine the relationship between coping strategies and social support with academic stress among part-time working students. This research employed a quantitative correlational approach. The participants consisted of 125 active university students who worked part-time, selected using incidental sampling. Data were collected using Likert-scale instruments measuring academic stress, coping strategies, and social support. Data analysis was conducted using Pearson correlation and multiple regression. The results showed a significant relationship between coping strategies and academic stress (r = 0.947; p < 0.05) and a significant relationship between social support and academic stress (r = 0.889; p < 0.05). Furthermore, coping strategies and social support simultaneously showed a significant relationship with academic stress (F = 536.272; p < 0.05) with a coefficient of determination of R² = 0.898, indicating that both variables contributed 89.8% to academic stress among part-time working students. Better coping strategies and higher social support were associated with lower levels of academic stress.