The Role of Parents’ Social Support and SelfEfficacy towards Academic Stress

Academic stress is one of problems experienced by students including the students of guidance and counseling major. Academic stress can be led by various reasons as if parental social support and self-efficacy. This study aimes to verify the effect of parental social support and self-efficacy of the academic stress on the guidance and counseling students at “X” university in Yogyakarta. Besides, the subjects of this study was all scholar of guidance and counseling study program at “X” University in Yogyakarta. Following this, the samples of this study were 100 people. Technique of the sampling used in this study was cluster random sampling. In addition, the data collection methods of this study utilized the academic stress scale, the scale of parental social support and self-efficacy scale followed by a Likert scaling model. The data analysis of this study used the multiple linear regression analysis, with assumption test consisting of normality test, linearity test, and multicollinearity test. The results of data analysis showed that the parental social support and self-efficacy could significantly influence the academic stress of students in the guidance and counseling study program at “X” university in Yogyakarta. Partially, there was a very significant influence between social support from parents and self-efficacy on the academic stress of guidance and counseling study program students at “X” university in Yogyakarta. Therefore, the implication of this research was the importance of parental social support and self-efficacy to control the students’ academic stress.