Pengaruh Media Sosial Terhadap Kecemasan Mahasiswa dalam Mengerjakan Skripsi

Abstract

Anxiety is an emotional reaction experienced by a person in certain situations that causes feelings of fear, worry, helplessness and anxiety about something that is not clear or has not happened. Social media is a feature or application that functions to socialize online without being constrained by infrequent and time. Social media also displays interesting things in it as a means of entertainment that can be enjoyed by its users. Currently, there are various kinds of social media such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok and so on. This study aims to reveal the level and influence of social media on the level of student anxiety in working on the thesis on counseling students of FKIP UNJA.The population in this study were Guidance Counseling students class of 2018 as many as 132 students. The sample in this study was 100 students who were taken using a purposive sampling technique with the criteria of students working on their thesis and students who access social media such as Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. This type of research is quantitative, with an expost facto approach. The instrument used in this research is a social media questionnaire and a dass scale. Data were analyzed using formula C, normality test, linearity test, simple regression analysis and t test.The results of this study indicate that in general the level of use of social media is in the high category with a percentage of 76% and the level of anxiety in students in general is in the high category with a percentage of 76%. The results also show that based on simple regression analysis, a significance value of 0.000 <0.005 is obtained, which means that the hypothesis in this study is proven to be true, namely that there is a significant influence between social media on students' anxiety levels in doing thesis with an effect of 75.4% or can be interpreted as strong or tall.