Coping strategy relationship with the answers of moms who had pre-school children during pandemic COVID 19

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ABSTRACT The COVID 19 pandemic that has occurred throughout the world makes parents, especially mothers, feel worried and anxious when their children contract this dangerous virus. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between coping strategies and anxiety of mothers who have preschool children during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Kindergarten in Lawang. This type of research is correlational analytic with a cross-sectional design. The population of this study was all 106 mothers of mothers who had preschool children during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Kindergarten in Lawang. The variables of this study were the independent variable coping strategy and the dependent variable anxiety of mothers who had preschool children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research instruments were the Cope Scale questionnaire and the SAS/SRAS questionnaire with data processing editing, coding, scoring, and tabulating. Data analysis used univariate and bivariate analysis with Spearman Rho's statistical test. The results showed that most mothers had sufficient coping strategies as much as 28 (55%), and almost half experienced moderate anxiety as much as 21 (41%), the results of the Spearman Rank statistical test obtained p-value = 0.000 <alpha value 0.05 so that H1 was accepted. The conclusion is that there is a relationship between coping strategies and the anxiety of mothers who have preschool children during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Kindergarten in Lawang. Keywords: Coping strategies, Anxiety, Pre-school children

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