HUBUNGAN ANTARA KEPRIBADIAN DENGAN EMOTIONAL EATING PADA MAHASISWA AKHIR

Final-year college students tend to feel stressed due to demands of completing their final assignment. One of the stress coping strategies that adopted by final-year students is emotional eating behavior. Personality which includes behavior in dealing with stress is predicted to play a role in emotional eating. The aim of this research was, among other things, to find the relationship between personality and emotional eating in final students. This research is quantitative research using accidental sampling techniques and received 179final-year students in Malang. The instruments used in this research were the Emotional Eating Scale (EES) and IPIP-BFM 25. Data analysis was carried out using the bivariate correlation method using Pearson product moment. The results show that there is a positive and significant relationship between personality and emotional eating in final-year students (r=0.130). The dimensions found to be positively and significantly related to emotional eating are conscientiousness and neuroticism.