The Relationship Between Student Anxiety And Coping Of Sman 1 Kuok For Facing National Examination

Abstract

In facing the national exams, students often have feelings of anxiety, and even some who suicide because of failure to pass the national exam. Because of the inability to overcome anxiety, the teenagers will have to use their own ways to solve the problem. This study aims to determine the relationship between the students’ anxiety and the students’ coping level in national exams. This study used descriptive correlative design involving 97 respondents was taken total population technique. The results showed experiencing majority of respondents (65%) had high anxiety and some of the respondents (59%) using adaptive coping in dealing with anxiety. Based on the results of chi square test shows that there is a relationship between students' level of anxiety with coping in the face of national examinations (p = 0.000; α 0:05). This study has implications for the school so that research results can be used as evidence base in preparing a plan to reduce student anxiety in the face of national exam