| dc.description.abstract | Academic stress according to Gadzella & Masten (2005) is a person’s perception
of academic stressors and how they react to academic stressors which consist of
physical, emotional, behavioral and cognitive reactions to these stressors. Students
who are currently experiencing academic stress tend to use binge watching as a
coping strategy for their stress. As coping stress, binge watching can reduce stress
on individuals but only temporarily. Prolonged involvement with binge watching
can actually cause more stress for students. Binge watching engagement is
individual involvement in watching several episodes of the same TV series in one
sitting (Flayelle, 2017). This study aims to see the relationship between binge
watching engagement and academic stress in student. This study used a quantitative
method using a questionnaire and involved 120 students at the Universitas Sumatera
Utara. The measuring tools used in this study consisted of the Binge Watching
Engagement and Symptoms Questionnaire (BWESQ) and the Student Life Stress
Inventory (SLSI). The data analysis method is Pearson Product Moment test. The
results showed that there was a positive relationship between binge watching
engagement and academic stress in students (r = 0.498, p(one-tailed) < 0.05). This
means that the higher the student engagement on binge watching, the higher the
level of academic stress | en_US |
