PENGARUH PELATIHAN BERPIKIR POSITIF PADA EFIKASI DIRI AKADEMIK MAHASISWA
Abstract: Academic self-efficacy
is individual conviction
to be up
against academic duty
assignment accords that
expected. Academic
self-efficacy motivated student
for ductile and
persistent in finalizing
college task, up
to aim, and
settles $emerging
interference (Bandura, 1997,
p. 117). Positive
thinking helps college
student to face
situations that evoke stress
in study and
makes college student
to focus on
the positive things.
Therefore, positive thinking
often used to determinant of
high in academic
self-efficacy, because it’s
making college student
focus successful possibility
in academic while stress gristle situation (Kivimaki, et al, 2005, p.
413). Methodology: This research intent to test effect of positive thinking
training to step
up academic self-efficacy
at college student.
This research is
done on 21
first year college student
undergraduate, they have never been followed positive thinking training thinks
before all, and they has academic
self-efficacy low or
moderate category. They
agglomerated in two
groups, which is
experiment group and control
group. Hypothesis that
proposed in this
research which is
there is difference
of academic self-efficacy
at experiment and control
groups. This research
used Randomized Pretest-Posttest Control
Group Design. Positive thinking training
is given up to three
meeting. Data collecting
is done by
use of observation
method, interview, and academic self-efficacy scale for college
student. Results: Hypothesis testing result by use of Independent Sample t-test
yields value of
p (0,000) <
0,05. It points
out that there
is significantly difference
of academic self-efficacy
score between experiment and
control groups after
treatment. Thus, positive
thinking can be
one of the
ways to increase academic self-efficacy
at college student.
Conclusions: There is
effect of positive
thinking training to
academic self-efficacy at first
year college student at sychology
faculty of Diponegoro University on Semarang.
Kata Kunci: Positive thinking
training, academic self-efficacy, college student
Penulis: Aswendo Dwitantyanov,
Farida Hidayati, and Dian Ratna Sawitri
Kode Jurnal: jppsikologikepribadiandd100001
