What is the Reason For Adolescents in Senior High School Depression?

Background: COVID-19 or Corona Virus Disease is a new type of infectious disease that first occurred in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Furthermore, WHO (2020) stated that COVID-19 is a pandemic because it has a high risk of very severe disease and spreads rapidly throughout the world. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on life that causes psychological disorders and one of them is depression. Depression is a very serious mental illness that requires special treatment and can be experienced by all groups. Based on Riskesdas (2018), data can be obtained on the prevalence of mental-emotional disorders that show signs of depressive symptoms in adolescents over 15 years and over reaching 6.02% of the total population of Indonesia. Objective: to find out whether there is a relationship between the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and depression in high school adolescents in Samarinda. Method: quantitative research with correlation descriptive design. The research design used a cross-sectional design with a research sample of 153 respondents with a sampling technique, namely total sampling. The instrument used in this study was the DASS questionnaire. Results: This study shows that the results of statistical tests using Pearson Product Moment obtained significant values of .001<0.05 and based on the r-value calculated > r table which is -647 > 0.159, it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between the impact variable of the COVID-19 pandemic and depression variables in high school adolescents in Samarinda. They have a strong relationship strength with a negative relationship direction. This can be interpreted that the lower the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the lower the incidence of depression in adolescents in Samarinda. With an average trust value of -740 to -528, it is believed to show a relationship between the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and depression in high school adolescents in Samarinda. Conclusion: There is a strong link between the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and depression in high school adolescents in Samarinda.