Prevalence of Academic Stress High School Students in Yogyakarta During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The presence of stressors in education cannot be separated from the role of students in school. The online-based learning process has been implemented since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The remote learning system presents new stressors for students such as network constraints, irregular learning time, a lot of workloads, and adjustment of the learning system. This study aims to determine the prevalence of academic stress experienced by high school students during the covid-19 pandemic. This research is a descriptive analysis research. The number of samples in the study was 217 students. Data collection was carried out using the adoption scale belonging to Sun et.al (2011) Educational Stress Scale Adolescents (ESSA) which had been tested for validity and reliability.Based on the results of data analysis, it shows that students who experience academic stress ranged between the ages of 14-16 years. Age has 13.4% contribution to students' academic stress levels. Furthermore, based on gender, female students experienced academic stress 54.8% higher than male students 45.2%. Gender contributed 8.4% to students' academic stress levels. In addition, with regard to the results of the percentage of student stress levels during the covid-19 pandemic, the average number of students who experienced stress in the moderate category is 66.8%.