PENGARUH STRES AKADEMIK, DAYA TINDAK DAN ADAPTASI SOSIAL BUDAYA TERHADAP KESEJAHTERAAN PSIKOLOGI PELAJAR UNIVERSITI

Abstract

This study aims to explore the academic stress, coping and social cultural adaptation among university students. A correlational research design was used in this study. The researcher used two softwares to analyze the study data, namely IBM SPSS Statistics 23 and SmartPLS 3 (Partial Least Squares). The numbers of respondents in this study were 424 as 12 outliers were identified. The sample determination in this study was using a simple random sampling technique. The purpose of the study was to identify the effect of academic stress factors, coping, social cultural adaptation and psychological well-being of Indonesian postgraduate students. The results of the purpose study showed that academic stress and coping were reported at a moderate level. Afterward, the findings of social cultural adaptation were found to be at a low level, however, lower scores indicated less difficulty but stronger social cultural adaptation of respondents. Further, psychological well-being of students was found at a high level. Finally, the results represented that academic stress, coping and social cultural adaptation have a significant effect on psychological well-being (PWB). Thus, it can be concluded that academic stress, coping and social cultural adaptation have a significant effect on the psychological well-being of Indonesian postgraduate students.