Peran Emosi Negatif Terhadap Atensi pada Mahasiswa

Abstract

This study aims to determine the role of negative emotions on attention. Participants in this study were students of the Faculty of Psychology, University of North Sumatra. The method used in this study is a type of correlational research. The instruments used to measure the variables in this study were the Geneva Emotions Wheel for the negative emotion variable and the Stroop test for the attention variable. The sampling technique in this study used nonprobability sampling in the form of convenience sampling, so that 219 respondents were found involved in this study. The data obtained were processed and analyzed using SPSS Statistics 26 in accordance with the basic concept of a simple linear regression test. The results of this study indicate that there is no influence between the role of negative emotions on attention in USU Psychology Faculty students with 0,132 > 0.05 (R = 0.010, p < 0.05), (F = 2.283; p = 0.000) , (t = -1.511; p > 0.05). Negative emotions only contributed as much as 1% to attention in this study. This indicates that there are other factors that have a greater influence on attention that were not examined in this study.