Pengaruh Terapi Musik untuk Penurunan Tingkat Stres pada Remaja di Yayasan Panti Asuhan Kyai Ageng Majapahit Semarang 

Abstract

Adolescence is the transition from childhood into adult, including biological changes, psychological changes, and social change. The changes experienced by adolescents is a stressor that can cause stress for adolescents. In order to decrease the stress level, there are several methods, one of which is by music therapy. The purpose of the study is to determine the effect of music therapy to decrease the level of stress in adolescents. This type of pre experiment with the design of the study one group pre and post design, using a pre experimental design approach. The research method is purposive sampling with a sample of 40 people. The results showed the lowest age of adolescents is 12 years old with a most of the respondents were women, and with a high school education is the greatest. The result of Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test obtained p-value = 0000 (<0.05), so that there are significant differences between levels of stress before the treatment with the stress level after treatment and it can be concluded that there is the influence of music therapy to decrease the level of stress in adolescents in the Kyai Ageng foundation for orphanage Majapahit Semarang.