Korelasional Pemberitaan Covid-19 di Media Online terhadap Kecemasan Pekerja

Abstract

Online media is known as public’s choice to seek for COVID-19 news. Those news bring up public’s variative responses, one of them is anxiety. This research used quantitative approach with survey method which distributed questionnaires to 100 respondents. The sampling technique used nonprobability sampling with purposive technique. Data were analised using validity test, reliability test, normality test, correlation test, simple linier regression test, and hypothesis test. The result of correlation test showed there are correlations of COVID-19 news in online media towards workers in Mampang Prapatan Subdistrict anxiety by 54,4%, the remaining 45,6% is influenced by other factors. Correlation test showed strong relation between both variables by 0,738. The results of the hypothesis test showed that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted, which the conclusion to this research is there are correlations of COVID-19 news in online media towards workers in Mampang Prapatan Subdistrict anxiety.