GAMBARAN STRATEGI KOPING MAHASISWA MAGISTER KEPERAWATAN UNIVERSITAS DIPONEGORO

Coping is an action to overcome the internal and external demands that burden the individual resources. Coping strategies are needed by students in overcoming problems or stressor, include master degree’ students. Nursing students face stressful life events during their academic study which can influence their academic personality and work. Students who are able to cope with various demands in Higher education show a lack of anxiety, low depression symptoms, high life satisfacion, as well as better academic achievement. The purpose of this study is to describe the coping strategies of master degree’ students. 99 master degree’ students were recruited as samples using Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling. The coping strategies were measured using.Ways of Coping questionnaire and analyzed using univariate analysis. The result of the study showed that majority of master degree’ students used emotion focused coping strategy (50.5%), problem focused coping strategy (40.4%), and problem emotion focused coping (9.1%). So, it can be concluded that majority of master degree’ students used emotion focused coping to cope their problem and stressor. This study recommends the master students to follow counseling guidance with guardian lecturer routinely and continously. Keywords: coping strategies, master student