KECEMASAN TERHADAP BERITA HOAX DITINJAU DARI STRATEGI EMOSI PADA MILLENNIAL MOM

Abstract

Ease access to the internet makes hoax news spread easily in this time. Milennial mom which is a generation that followed by technological and social media development is very vulnerable in believe and anxious towards hoax. The causes of anxiety involve the ability of individual behavior maintain and emotion regulation. Therefore, emotion regulation strategies are required by millennial mom for not easily feels anxious towards hoax news. The purpose of this research is to see the different levels of anxiety about hoax news based on the emotion regulation strategies on millennial mom. The method of this research is quantitative. In this research, hypothesis testing was performed using Mann-Whitney U test. Based on calculations that has been done, it can be seen that the significance value is 0,002 which is less than the significance level (α) 0,05 and Z count value is 3,131 which is more than Z table 1,96. This means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. The conclusion of this research is there were significant differences in the levels of anxiety towards hoax news in millennial mom based on regulation emotion strategy, and emotion regulaion strategy cognitive reappraisal has a lower level of anxiety towards hoax news.