Abstract
One of those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is college students. It made the learning process that was previously carried out face-to-face became online. This condition affects the psychological well-being of college students. One of the factors that influence psychological well-being is social support. The goal of this research is to investigate the relationship between social support and the psychological well-being of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The method used in this research was a quantitative method with a correlational design. A total of 351 college students who attend lectures during the COVID-19 pandemic and studied in the city of Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia became a subject of this research. Measurement was carried out by adapting the scale and each scale has a reliability of .795 and .894. The results showed that social support was significantly related to the psychological well-being of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic which could be seen from the significance value of .00 (p<.05). The Pearson correlation value in the research was .668, this indicates that the relationship between social support and the psychological well-being of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic is in a strong category.
Highlights
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic first broke out in China in December 2019 and has spread almost all over the world (Cao, Fang, Hou, Han, Xu, Dong, & Zheng., 2020)
The hypothesis of this research is that there is a significant relationship between social support and psychological well-being of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic
The results of this research are in line with the results of research conducted by Fransisca (2018); Kurniawan & Eva (2020); Rachmadhani (2020), who found that there was a positive relationship between social support and psychological well-being in overseas college students
Summary
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic first broke out in China in December 2019 and has spread almost all over the world (Cao, Fang, Hou, Han, Xu, Dong, & Zheng., 2020). In addition to regulations and circulars, there is an appeal from the government for social distancing and physical distancing in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 (Kompas.TV, 2020). One of those affected by the regulations, circulars, and appeals are college students, where the learning process that is usually done face-to-face has turned online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results of the research by Meo, International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education, Vol 5 No 1 2021
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