PERBEDAAN STRES MASYARAKAT MENGHADAPI PENYEBARAN VIRUS CORONA DENGAN ANCAMAN GANGGUAN PEREKONOMIAN

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic causes health problems and has the potential to cause a heavy social burden. This can be a threat to the community, causing stress due to fears about the needs of life. This study aims to analyze the differences in community stress scores in facing the threat of exposure to COVID-19 with the threat of economic disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malang City. The research design is comparative with a cross sectional approach. The study population was people aged 25-60 years. The sampling technique with simple random sampling is 120 people. The research instrument was the DASS 42 questionnaire. Univariate data analysis with percentages and bivariate analysis using the t-test statistical test with α 0.05. The result of the study is that there is a significant difference between the value of the community stress score in facing the threat of Covid-19 
exposure and the value of the community stress score in facing economic threats during the Covid-19 pandemic with a p value of 0.000, smaller than the α value of 0.05 (p < 0.05) with a 95% confidence interval value between 1.002 and 1.964, thus indicating that people are more stressed facing the threat of exposure to the Covid-19 virus than facing economic threats during the Covid-19 pandemic.The implications of the results of this study indicate that in handling the Covid-19 outbreak, it is also necessary to overcome the adverse impacts that arise, especially in the problem of disruption