KORELASI ANTARA OPTIMISME DAN PRESTASI AKADEMIK SISWA SD SANTA MARIA KELAS 6 DI CIREBON
ABSTRACT: Optimism refers to
how a person conduct his or her positive attitude toward of certain event or
condition. Academic achievement refers to the result achieved from cognitive study
activities which commonly stated for the students by the measurement and evaluation
of their performance on a study report form that wiil bw given at each of the end
of semester. This research is aimed to discover the correlation between the optimism
and academic achievement of grade 6th students of Saint Mary Elementary School
at Cirebon. Thirty eight of grade 6th students of Saint Mary Elementary School at
Cirebon are involved as the subject of this research. To gather the data,
researcher used the Questionaire form. Then the obtained data were correlated
in Person Product Moment Technique of correlation, which processed using the
SPSS (Statistical Packages for Social Sciences) version 12.00. The result of
research shows that there is no significant correlation between the optimism
and academic achievement (study report data) of elementary school students rxy
(36)= 0,145, p > 0,05.
Keywords: Optimism, academic
achievement
Penulis: Fidelis. E. Waruwu,
Sukardi
Kode Jurnal: jppendidikandd060003
