The Social Support To Increase Student Resilience During Distance Learning During Pandemic

Abstract

Distance learning (online) has become a policy implemented by the government during the COVID-19 pandemic. The online learning system requires students to be able to adapt to a learning process that is completely different from what has been done so far. The inability to adapt to new learning methods causes various psychological problems. Therefore, it is important for students to have resilience skills in order to overcome any adjustment problems in distance learning. Resilience ability depends on the psychological support provided by parents, family and friends. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between social support and resilience during distance learning during this pandemic. The instruments used are social support scale and resilience scale. The subjects of this study are 100 high school students from grade X to XII. The result of the correlation analysys of social support and student resilience during distance the pandemic obtained rxy = 0.614 with p = 0.000 (p<0.01). This data shows a positive correlation between social support and student resilience during distance learning during the pandemic. The research results are expected to be an important input, especially strategies of providing social support in improving student resilience in distance learning.
Keywords: Resilience, distance learning, social support