摘要：- Pregnancy is one of important events happens in women’s life. Pregnant women will experience physical changes during pregnancy and they have to adjust to those. The adjustment process may not go well and causes psychological problem such as stress. Stress has a negative effect for both pregnant women and the fetus, so women have to find a way to cope with it by using coping strategy, such as emotion-focused coping. Theories suggest that emotion-focused coping is the right one to cope for inevitable stressful event like being pregnant. The aim of this study is to find correlation between emotion-focused coping and pregnant stress on pregnant women. The instruments used in this study are pregnant women’s emotion focused coping scale and pregnancy stress scale. Subjects of this study are 140 pregnant women. Data analyzed with product moment correlation from Pearson. The result shows that there is a negative correlation between emotion-focused coping and pregnancy stress with rxy= -0,375 (p< 0,01), which suggests that pregnant women who use emotionfocused coping in a high level show a low level of pregnancy stress, and vice versa.
