Open AccessThe relationship between social support and psychological well-being of college students during Covid-19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Nadatuljannah Alza,
Rani Armalita,
Dwi Puspasari
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of research in counseling and education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2620-5769
pISSN - 2620-5750
DOI - 10.24036/00445za0002
Subject(s) - pandemic , psychology , covid-19 , scale (ratio) , social support , value (mathematics) , social psychology , applied psychology , clinical psychology , medical education , medicine , geography , statistics , cartography , disease , mathematics , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
One of those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is college students. It made the learning process that was previously carried out face-to-face became online. This condition affects the psychological well-being of college students. One of the factors that influence psychological well-being is social support. The goal of this research is to investigate the relationship between social support and the psychological well-being of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The method used in this research was a quantitative method with a correlational design. A total of 351 college students who attend lectures during the COVID-19 pandemic and studied in the city of Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia became a subject of this research. Measurement was carried out by adapting the scale and each scale has a reliability of .795 and .894. The results showed that social support was significantly related to the psychological well-being of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic which could be seen from the significance value of .00 (p<.05). The Pearson correlation value in the research was .668, this indicates that the relationship between social support and the psychological well-being of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic is in a strong category.