Abstract. The phenomenon of massive social media usage today has eased people to interact. It has started to dominate all ages, from children to the elderly. Its growing use has many impacts and one of them is the social anxiety. In fact, around 39% of Indonesians experience anxiety when they are not on their social media. One of the efforts to reduce that anxiety is the use of coping strategy which includes actions to reduce anxiety or behavioral and mental responses to stress. Based on this phenomenon, the research problems were formulated as follows: (1) How is the level of social anxiety that occurs in adolescents who use social media? (2) How is the coping strategy used by adolescents who use social media? (3) Is there a relationship between coping strategy and level of social anxiety in adolescent social media users? The researcher employed the analytic observational method with SMA Negeri 1 Sukabumi students as the population. The sampling technique used the purposive sampling with a selected sample of 172 respondents. The data was gathered through a google form questionnaire and the data analysis used the Pearson chi-square test. The results of the study have shown that there is a relationship between coping strategies and the level of social anxiety in adolescents who use social media. According to its characteristics, the use of coping strategy that can be used and is more appropriate to use to reduce social anxiety in adolescent social media users is the problem focused coping. Abstrak. Fenomena merebaknya penggunaan media sosial mempermudah masyarakat unutk berinteraksi. Penggunaannya mulai menguasai berbagai kalangan, mulai dari anak hingga orang tua. Penggunaannya yang semakin meningkat menimbulkan dampak salah satunya adalah kecemasan sosial. Sebanyak 39% warga Indonesia mengalami kecemasan apabila tidak bersentuhan dengan media sosial yang dimiliki karena rasa ketergantungan terhadap media sosial. Upaya dalam mereduksi kecemasan tersebut adalah penggunaan coping strategy yang merupakan suatu tindakan untuk mengurangi kecemasan atau respons perilaku dan pikiran terhadap suatu stres. Berdasarkan fenomena tersebut, maka permasalahan penelitian dirumuskan sebagai berikut: (1) Bagaimana gambaran tingkat kecemasan sosial yang terjadi pada remaja pengguna media sosial (2) Bagaimana gambaran coping strategy yang digunakan oleh remaja pengguna media sosial (3) Apakah terdapat hubungan antara coping strategy terhadap tingkat kecemasan sosial pada remaja pengguna media sosial. Peneliti menggunakan metode observasional analitik. Populasi yang dipilih adalah siswa SMA Negeri 1 Kota Sukabumi. Teknik pengambilan sampel yaitu purposive sampling dengan sampel terpilih sebanyak 172 responden. Pengambilan data melalui kuesioner berbentuk google form dan analisis data yang digunakan adalah uji pearson chi-square. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan terdapat hubungan antara coping strategy terhadap tingkat kecemasan sosial pada remaja pengguna media sosial. Berdasarkan karakteristiknya, maka penggunaan coping strategy yang dapat digunakan dan lebih tepat digunakan untuk mengurangi kecemasan sosial pada remaja pengguna media sosial ialah problem focused coping
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