Emotion regulation as a predictor of mother's stress in accompanying children's online learning at elementary school

Abstract

This research has objectives 1) knowing the description of emotion regulation in mothers at elementary school. 2) find out the description of the stress of mothers in accompanying children to learn online at elementary school. 3) find out whether emotional regulation can be a predictor of stress in mothers in accompanying children to learn online at elementary school. The subjects of this study were the mothers of students at SD Santa Maria I Malang with a total sample of 191 mothers. Emotion regulation was measured using the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire which was adapted and modified from Gross and John (2003), totaling 10 items, all of which were valid with a validity range of 0.492 to 0.743, and reliable with a Cronbach's Alpha of 0.828. Mother's stress in accompanying children to learn online was measured using the Parental Stress Scale adapted and modified from Berry and Jones (1995) totaling 18 items, all of which were valid with a validity range of 0.592 to 0.818 and reliable with a Cronbach's Alpha of 0.945. Data analysis used simple linear regression. The results showed that the mothers of students at the Santa Maria I Elementary School Malang had a high level of emotional regulation and stress in assisting children with moderate online learning. The results show that H1 in this study is accepted, namely emotional regulation is a predictor of maternal stress in accompanying children to learn online at p value 0.000 < 0.005 and an R value of 0.700. While R square is 0.490, meaning that the determination of emotional regulation on stress in mothers is 49% while 51% is influenced by other variables not tested in the study. It is important to do and is expected to be a mother's attention to improve emotional regulation so that it can avoid stress in accompanying children to learn online. Future researchers are expected to be able to develop research variables, considering that there are still 51% of other variables that are predictors of maternal stress in accompanying children to learn online.