Research Paper
Year: 2023 | Month: August | Volume: 10 | Issue: 8 | Pages: 954-964
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.202308120
Coping Stress Levels of Inclusive PAUD Teachers
Hanifa Rachman1, Yuli Kurniawati Sugiyo Pranoto2, Diana3
1,2,3Early Childhood Education, Postgraduate Program, Semarang State University
Corresponding Author: Hanifa Rachman
ABSTRACT
Inclusive preschool education (PAUD) is a preschool education system that provides learning opportunities to children with special needs and regular children in schools. The teaching profession, especially teachers in inclusive PAUD, is vulnerable to stress, which impacts on learning, personal life, and school. This study aims to determine how high the stress coping problem focused coping and emotional focused coping of PAUD teachers in Central Java. This study used descriptive quantitative method involving 30 inclusive PAUD teachers in Central Java. The sampling technique used was saturated sampling. Data collection through questionnaires (google forms) with Likert scale percentage results of coping stress. The results showed problem focused coping obtained a percentage of 57.17% and emotional focused coping 46.17%. This shows that inclusive PAUD teachers in Central Java in solving problems use problem focused coping which is balanced with emotional focused coping. Therefore, problem solving needs to be thought through and then take the right steps so that problems can be faced properly.
Keywords: Coping Stress, Preschool Teacher, Inclusive Education, Case Study
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