Correlation Between Resilience and Social Support for Seniors College Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Covid-19 pandemic brings big changes into our lives including the senior college students, because of online learning obligation by government educational institutions. It's important for senior college students who are doing their final project to avoid factors that inhibit the progress of their final project. Therefore, senior college students need resilience to survive. Apart from that, senior college students need factors that support the ability such as social support. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the correlation between resilience and social support of senior’s college students during covid-19 pandemic. This research uses a non-experimental quantitative approach with correlation test. The participants of this research are active senior college students who are doing or have done their thesis at the time of covid-19 pandemic, using purposive sampling techniques that include 484 participants. resilience scale and social support scale are used as measurements tools to analyze the correlation tests between both variables. This research analyzed using spearman correlation test. The results of the correlation coefficient value = 0.344 and p = 0,000, means There are positive and significant correlation between resilience in terms of social support in covid-19 pandemic times.