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The Relationship Between Coping Strategies and Resilience

for Students with People Pleaser Tendency

Desi Permata Sari

, Komarudin

A student is someone who is studying in college. The average age of students in

Indonesia entering early adulthood ranges from 18 to 24 years old. According to Willis,

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Various problems arise with increasing age in early adulthood. As a student at this

stage, the problem that will be experienced is natural selection with a reduction in the

number of people closest to you due to different busyness and responsibilities. However,

some of the students try to maintain by always pleasing the people around them and even

sacrificing their own needs and desires. The desire to help others is a good intention, but

the willingness to do something for others even though you feel reluctant can cause

negative consequences that have an impact on yourself. This encouragement to please

others is called people pleasing or in Indonesian can be interpreted as an attitude that aims

to please others. (Harapan, Ahmad, & MM, 2022). This attitude wants to put others first

but often goes too far because it is sacrificing yourself. In everyday language, we often

that they are being taken advantage of by those around them and have a passive-

aggressive attitude and this can trigger frustration and risk making them depressed.

(Afrianstika & Yusuf, 2024). From these problems, it is stated that one of the

psychological effects of students who tend to be people pleasers is anxiety and stress

disorders to the risk of depression. The task of being a student and the responsibility of

pleasing others becomes an additional burden for him to be a people pleaser. The ability

to overcome the problems faced to avoid anxiety and stress is needed by students,

especially those who have characteristics or tendencies to be people pleasers. (Dinata,

Wahyudi, & Fikry, 2023).

From the results of interviews conducted by the researcher, it was found that the

pleasures, and problems and forgets what is experienced so that students tend to be people

pleasers who will always adjust and survive the pressures that arise in their various lives.

One of them has problems in the aspect of emotion regulation, according to (Reivich &

Shatté, 2002) Characterized by the lack of individuals regulating emotions because they

always think about the problems or sufferings of others rather than themselves. And three

of the subjects have problems in the aspect of self-efficacy according to Reivich & Shatte

(2002) characterized by a lack of individual confidence to solve their problems, always

needing the opinions of others in solving their problems. (Rahmayanty et al., 2023).

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succeed in their study period and consider these problems as part of the challenges of

their study period, and not something that should be used as an excuse to be down.

Students tend to be People pleasers who will experience complex problems in lectures

with their responsibility and a desire to continue to make others happy with them.

(Afrianstika & Yusuf, 2024). Stress, anxiety, and depression require resilience so that

students can overcome and survive the pressure and responsibilities in their lives as

students. Reivich describes some of the abilities that make a person have good resilience

are confidence in oneself to be able to overcome a problem, being able to identify

problems, and take lessons from a difficult event or situation.

(Reivich & Shatté, 2002) Conducted research with student subjects at Ahmad

Faculty of Medicine, Sebelas Maret University have low resilience.

From the description above, it can be concluded that students need resilience to

be able to adjust and develop themselves, however, there are still many resilience in

students in Indonesia that are relatively low. In line with that, resilience according to

Reivich & Shatte (2002) is an individual's ability to overcome and adapt to severe events

or problems faced healthily and productively. According to Smith, et al., (2008) resilience

is the ability to bounce back and recover from stress and be able to adapt to stress or

adversity. Resilience is seen as a measure of success in coping with stress. Therefore,

there is a need for a coping strategy to increase the resilience of students who tend to be

people pleasers to avoid stress, anxiety, and depression due to the pressure experienced.

A coping strategy is an action that occurs as an individual's response to a stressful

situation that can have a negative impact, both psychologically and physiologically. In

addition, coping strategies are also influenced by a person's experience in dealing with

problems, cultural background, self-image, environmental factors, social factors, and

others, which are some of the factors that greatly affect a person's ability to solve a

problem. Coping strategies are an individual's effort to reduce and control the threat of

stress and learn to overcome it. The coping strategy is divided into 3 dimensions, namely;

problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping, and dysfunctional coping.

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analysis obtained correlation coefficient (r) = 0.525 with p = 0.000 (p < 0.001). Another

similar study, (Sani, 2019), this study showed a positive relationship between resilience

and coping strategies that focus on PFE problems (r = 0.557, p < 0.01). Which

hypothesized that there was a positive and significant relationship between resilience and

coping strategies that focused on EFE emotions (r = 0.194, p < 0.01). Another similar

study is the (Shaputra, 2021), which shows a result of rs = 0.874 with p = 0.000 (p < 0.01).

These studies show that there is a significant positive relationship between coping

strategy variables and resilience variables. The difference between this study and the

previous research is in the subject and aspects used. This study connects resilience with

coping strategies in students with a tendency to be people pleasers in the Special Region

The research was conducted in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, from March 22

The characteristics of the subjects in this study are students who are entering the

early adult phase. Early adulthood is often referred to as young adulthood with an age

range of 18 - 24 years. Based on the criteria mentioned by the researcher is in line with

the opinion expressed by Wilis. According to Wilis (2011), Early adulthood is a transition

from adolescence. Adolescence is characterized by the search for self-identity, in early

adulthood, this self-identity is obtained little by little according to the chronological age

and mental age. Entering the early adult phase as a student, they will experience natural

selection with a decrease in the number of people closest to them due to their busy

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factors that affects resilience is coping strategies, so students tend to be people pleasers

who have a good coping strategy and will have good resilience as well.

In the results of the study, the analysis of the characteristics of the research subjects

based on criteria was obtained from as many as 200 respondents consisting of 69 men and

131 women. The number of female respondents is greater than that of men because of the

place and environment in which the researcher shares the psychological scale, there are

many women, and based on the results of the researcher's observations and interviews,

women are indeed the most vulnerable to being a people pleaser because they prioritize

feelings.

The age of the respondents in this study is early adult, namely 18-24 years old.

Yogyakarta, 24 students from Muhammadiyah University Yogyakarta, 16 students from

Ahmad Dahlan University, 14 students from Islamic University of Indonesia, 7 students

from Duta Kencana Christian University, 6 students came from UIN Sunan Kalijaga, 3

students came from STIKES Yogyakarta, 2 students came from UPN Veteran

Yogyakarta, 1 student came from Alma Ata University, and 1 student came from

Yogyakarta Institute of Technology.

Based on the explanation above, this study was conducted to determine whether

or not there is a relationship between coping strategies and resilience in students with a

tendency to be people pleasers in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. The results of the

analysis based on the results of the research data will be presented one by one in

to be people pleaser who had very low resilience. A total of 46 students with a tendency

to be people pleaser were included in the low categorization level with a percentage of

23%, as many as 40 students with a tendency to be people pleaser with a percentage of

20% were obtained at the medium categorization level, as many as 22 students with a

tendency to be people pleaser with a percentage of 11% were at the high categorization

level and consisting of 92 students with a tendency to be people pleaser with a percentage

of 46% in very high categorization. It can be concluded from the descriptive analysis that

the majority of students tend to be people pleasers have very high resilience and can

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pleasers based on descriptive analysis, there were 0 respondents with a percentage of 0%

with a very low and low level of categorization, then at the medium level of

categorization, there were 44 respondents with a percentage of 22%, consisting of 68

respondents with a percentage of 34% included in high categorization, and 88 respondents

with a percentage of 44% were categorized very tall. It can be concluded that the majority

of students tend to be people pleasers have a very high coping strategy and can function

well when facing various pressures in their lives.

Based on this explanation, it can be seen that the scale of coping strategies has a

positive significance relationship with resilience. The relationship is said to be positive if

the independent variable and the bound variable are unidirectional, which means that the

normality test, if the significance value > 0.05, the data is normally distributed, but if the

value < 0.05, the data is said to be not normally distributed. The statistical value of the

normality test is 0.125 which means the significance value is 0.125 > 0.05 and the coping

strategy data and resilience-bound variables show normal distributed data.

The next analysis is a linearity test that serves to determine whether or not there is

a linear relationship between two variables, namely the coping strategy independent

variable and the resilience-bound variable. The provision for two variables is said to be

linear if the significance value > 0.05 is said to be linear, but if the significance value is

< 0.05 then the two variables are not said to be linear. The statistical results of the linearity

test showed a significance value of 0.100 > 0.05 which showed that the two variables

relationship between the coping scale and resilience in students with a tendency to people

pleaser in the Special Region of Yogyakarta has a strong relationship level and the type

of relationship between these two variables is positive because there is no negative sign

(-) of the product moment column table and is strengthened by exposure to descriptive

analysis which shows that the independent variable and the variable tied together to obtain

a very high statistical value. Therefore, the results of the study are by the hypothesis that

has been made by the researcher.

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variable, the R Square value was obtained at 0.598 or a percentage is 59.8%. This means

that the ability to cope strategy variables affects the resilience variable by 59.8% while

40.2% is influenced by other factors that are not explained in this study such as individual

factors (cognition, coping strategies, locus of control, and self-concept), family factors,

community factors, and risk factors. (Everall, Altrows, & Paulson, 2006).

Based on the results of statistical tests that have been passed through each step and

process, prove that coping strategies have a positive relationship with resilience and

strength. The positive relationship in question is the independent variable, namely the

coping strategy tends to be very high, while the resilience-bound variable also tends to be

very high, or vice versa, if the independent variable tends to be low, then the bound

between coping strategies and resilience. Another study conducted by (Sani, 2019), which

was researched with the title "Coping Strategies Reviewed from Spirituality and

Resilience in Early Adult Women" showed that there was a positive and significant

relationship between resilience and coping strategies that focused on PFE problems (r =

0.557, p<0.01). Another similar research is the research of (Shaputra, 2021) Which

examines "The Relationship Between Coping Strategy and Resilience in Regional

Students at Sultan Agung Islamic University", the study shows that there is a very

significant positive relationship between coping strategy variables and resilience

variables in regional students studying at Sultan Agung Islamic University Semarang

class of 2017-2019.

1. The respondent criteria determined by the researcher are not specific so the target

respondent in this study is not met.

2. Researchers are less able to survey respondents because all scales from the trial to the

study are made with Google Forms and disseminated to social media through

WhatsApp, Instagram, and X (Twitter) and the scales used by the researcher are

personal so that the subjects are not completely honest in filling out the research scale

and want to show a good impression.

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Based on the discussion above, it can be concluded that, in the resilience variable,

most of the respondents have very high resilience, namely 92 respondents or 46%, 22

respondents (11%) have high resilience, 40 respondents (20%) have moderate resilience,

and 46 respondents (23%) have very low resilience. It can be concluded that the majority

of students tend to be people pleasers in the Special Region of Yogyakarta have very high

resilience and function well when facing various pressures in their lives. In the coping

strategy variable, there were 44 respondents (22%) who had a moderate coping strategy,

68 respondents (34%) who had a high coping strategy, and 88 respondents (44%) who

had a very high coping strategy. It can be concluded that the majority of students who

strategy, the higher the resilience in students with a tendency to be people pleasers in the

Special Region of Yogyakarta. The statistical value of the R Square test result was 0.598

or 59.8%, so the contribution of the independent variable, namely the coping strategy in

influencing the resilience-bound variable, was 59.8%. There was a strong relationship

between coping strategies and resilience in students with a tendency to be people pleasers

in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, which was 0.773.

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