Introduction: Complications of disease caused by hypertension such as stroke and kidney failure, long and expensive treatment programs trigger stress in hypertension.  Family emotional support is needed to shape a person’s adaptive behavior to stress that is felt through stress management. Objective: The aim of study was to identify the relation between family emotional support and stress management abilities in hypertensive adults in Pringsewu Regency, Lampung. Method: The research method used descriptive correlation with cross sectional approach. The number of samples in the study were 162 hypertensive adults, obtained through a consecutive sampling method for people who made health visits in the work area of the Pringsewu Regency health center. Data were analyzed using Pearson test and multiple linier regression. Result: The results showed that there was a relation between family emotional support and stress management (p value = 0,005, r = 0,219) and income was the most related factor to stress management abilities after being controlled by age, education and family emotional support. Conclusion: It is necessary to increase the provision of family emotional support in the form of giving love, attention and safe feeling so that stress management skills can be better.

Keyword: family emotional support, stress management, adult hypertension.