The Social Anxiety under Corona Virus Pandemic in Millennial Generation: an Experience of Indonesia

Abstract

This study aimed at verifying the relationship between Covid-19 pandemic and social anxiety in the Millennial generation in Indonesia. The study used the OLS ( Ordinary Least Squares) approach in analyzing the data from 441 respondents from 10 universities in Indonesia. The theory formulated as the finding of this study is: “The social anxiety experienced by the Millennials during the Covid-19 outbreak is a product of social situations. It is made a convincing case because there is a correlation between the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of the perceptions and understanding of the Millennial generation in Indonesia and social anxiety. The influence of the Covid-19 pandemic on social anxiety has even significantly folded.” This article is useful to show how significant the influence of Pandemic Covid-19 on Social Anxiety in Millennials in Indonesia, where such studies have not even been adequately offered by other scholars. The study not only fills the gap but precisely becomes a preliminary study that measures the correlation of Covid-19 Pandemic to social anxiety in millennial generation in Indonesia.  Keywords: social anxiety, Covid-19 pandemic, Millennial generation, Social anxiety disorder, psychological disorder .