PENGARUH KOMPETENSI EMOSI TERHADAP STRATEGI KOPING PADA REMAJA DI PONDOK PESANTREN

Coping strategies are a process that teenagers go through when trying to manage demands that bring pressure or stressors. The coping strategies used by adolescents to adjust the resources they have or previous habits with the demands imposed by their current environment make adolescents have emotional competence. The aim of this research is to see whether there is an influence of emotional competence on adolescent coping strategies, especially in Islamic boarding schools. The number of samples in this study was 101 subjects who had the criteria for teenagers in grades 7 and 8 of junior high school who were in Islamic boarding schools. In this study, the Profile of Emotional Competence (PEC) Scale and the Coping Strategy Scale were used. Based on the results of this research, researchers found an influence (B = 1.739). Furthermore, based on the regression results, the R2 value was obtained at 0.880 or 88%. This shows that emotional competence is influenced by the attachment variable, namely coping strategies, as much as 88%, while the other 12% is influenced by other variables outside the research model used in this research.