The Influence of Parenting Stress towards Parental Well-Being in the Covid-19 Pandemic Era

  • Vivi Irzalinda Universitas Lampung
  • Devi Nawangsasi Universitas Lampung
  • Sugiana Sugiana Universitas Lampung

Abstract

The Covid 19 pandemic has hit Indonesia for the last 1.5 years. This pandemic impacts various aspects of life in society, including economic, educational, socio-cultural, technological aspects. Various changes caused several problems from different systems, and one of them is family education. Better system in the family management needs to be done, such as the management of parenting stress, which will improve the parental well-being, thus creating family resilience in facing the covid 19 pandemic. This study aims to find out the effect of parenting stress on parental well-being. The number of samples used in this study was 70 parents, with the characteristics of having a child aged 1-6 years. The sample was elderly people living in Bandar Lampung City and Lampung Regency. Data retrieval technique using questionnaires from google form distributed through Whatsapp group of PAUD teachers. The questionnaire consists of stress parenting and parental well-being. The technique used to analyze the data was simple linear regression analysis. The results showed that parenting stress had an effect on the parental well-being (β = 0.428, p = 0.005), and effective contribution = 42.8%).

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2022-06-29
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