Relationship Between Optimism and Stress Coping on Students who are Completing the Thesis

Currently there are still final year students who tend to avoid and cannot complete the thesis on time due to some pressure or problems faced. Efforts to overcome existing stresses are called stress coping which can be influenced by the optimism that students have. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of optimism with stress coping in students who were completing their thesis. The sample of this study is the UMN Alwashliyah Teaching and Education Faculty student study program Teacher Education - Early Childhood Education which is completing a thesis totaling 56 people taken using random sampling technique. Data collection was carried out using two scales, namely optimism scale (Seligman) and stress coping (Lazarus and Folkman). Data analysis method used is Pearson Product Moment and regression analysis. The results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between optimism and stress coping in students who were completing a thesis (R = 0.771, p