HUBUNGAN TINGKAT KECEMASAN DENGAN ADAPTASI LINGKUNGAN ASRAMA KEPERAWATAN UNIVERSITAS TRIBHUWANA TUNGGADEWI

 Introduction: The dormitory environment causes students to need the ability to adapt or coping mechanisms that make someone able to get to know a new environment so as not to cause excessive anxiety in students. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between anxiety level and environment adaptation of the nursing students at the Nursing Dormitory of Tribhuwana Tunggadewi University. Methods: The research design used a correlative design with a cross sectional approach. The population in the study was all new students of the nursing program who live at dormitory Tribhuwana Tunggadewi University as many as 72 people based on data on the number of students of the Class of 2023, and the sampling technique used simple random sampling so that a sample of 61 people was obtained. The research instrument used questionnaire sheets. Hypothesis testing using Chi square. Results: The results showed that the level of anxiety was mostly categorized as moderate anxiety, which was 35 people (57.4%), the environmental adaptation at dormitory was mostly categorized as maladaptive at 33 people (54.1%), and the results of hypothesis testing obtained a significant value of 0.001 (p value ≤ 0.05) which means that the data was declared significant and H1 was accepted, meaning that there was a relationship between the level of anxiety and the environmental adaptation dormitory in new students of nursing program of Tribhuwana Tunggadewi University. Discussion: Further research needs to add several other factors that have not been studied by researchers at this time such as external factors (physical trauma, loss and socioeconomic), physiological, psychological, developmental and maturity factors, and alsocultural and religious factors. Keywords: environmental, adaptation dormitory; Anxiety