Introduction: Anxiety is an unpleasant feeling or sense of uncertainty felt by someone. Adolescents who experience anxiety can be caused by menstruation, especially at the early menarche age of 1-3. Untreated Anxiety can interfere aldolescent’s study. This study aim to investigate the relationship between mother’s social support with adolescent’s anxiety in confronting menstruation. Method: this study was a descriptive analytical with cross sectional approach. The population was student in 6th grade in SDN Panjang Jiwo 1 Surabaya. The 26 sample respondents were chosen by purposive sampling technique. The independent variable in this study was mother’s social support. The dependent variable was adolescent’s anxiety. The data was collected using questionnare and analyzed using Spearmen rho test with a degree of significance p ≤ 0,05. Result: Most adolecent students experiencing mild anxiety(65,3%), though there were experiencing moderate anxiety (34,7%). The correlation between perceived susceptibility p = 0,034 with significant r = -0,418. Discussion: Mother’s social support was strong enough towards adolescent’s anxiety in confronting menstruation. Further research was suggested to invole mother as a respondent to decrease adolescent’s anxiety to comfront menstruation.
Keywords: mother’s social support, adolescent’s anxiety, menstruatio
