Pengaruh Dance Movement Therapy (Dmt) terhadap Stres pada Anak Smp Saat Pandemi COVID 19 Di Sumberasri, Banyuwangi

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on all sectors, one of them is the education. The implementation of the educational process to reduced the transmission of COVID-19 is online learning. Students found it was difficult to adapt online learning, usually complains about being uncomfortable during online learning. If it occurs continuously will cause stress to students, especially academic stressors that come from learning activities. To reduce academic stressors, it can use Dance Movement Therapy (DMT). This study was to determine the effect of Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) on the academic stress of Junior High School. This research is a Quasi Experiment with Pre Test Post Test Control-Group Design research design. The sampling technique used purposive sampling 68 respondents with 34 experimental groups and 34 control groups. The results of the study used an independent t test and significant value is 0.05. The result is p value 0.000 (p <0.05) which can be concluded that there is a difference between academic stress in experimental group and academic stress in the control group without intervention. So that Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) has an influence on reducing academic stress, and it’s hoped that Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) can be used as an intervention to reduce stress.