Is interpersonal support important for students in flood-prone areas?

Abstract Interpersonal support is often overlooked by parties in disaster-prone areas. This will certainly impact the condition of students who experience disasters. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to evaluate the influence of tangible support, belonging support, self-esteem support, and appraisal support in facing flood disasters at SMP Negeri 6 Surakarta. This research is a quantitative study with a correlational design. The respondents in this study were 264 students at SMP N 6 Surakarta, with data collection techniques using questionnaires, observations, and documentation. The data analysis technique used was regression analysis. The results of the data analysis show that the students of SMP Negeri 6 Surakarta are in the good category for tangible support (87.50%), belonging support (65.91%), self-esteem support (63.64%), and appraisal support (81.82%). Although overall of the interpersonal support for facing flood disasters among the students of SMP N 6 Surakarta is already good, the individual aspects of interpersonal support are not entirely interconnected. Only the aspect of belonging support has an influence on interpersonal support (<.001). Good interpersonal support will certainly help students in disaster-prone areas to be more aware of the flood disaster conditions that are prone to occur at SMP N 6 Surakarta.