The Effect of Positive Thinking Ability and Family Support on the Academic Resilience of Student Working Thesis in the EconomicEducation Study Program FKIP ULM

Abstract

Academic resilience in tertiary institutions can be interpreted as the ability to deal effectively with challenges, difficulties, and pressure in academic situations. The phenomenon that often occurs in tertiary institutions is that it is not uncommon for a number of students to be able to achieve, go through and complete the stages well, but some are not finished and fail in the process. As a student, the demands are even greater because you are required to be able to show maximum results in the process of implementing learning activities during your study period. This demand can cause various kinds of difficulties  experienced by students so that it can affect the formation of identity, social, emotional, physical and academic functions of students. The type of research that will be used is associative quantitative research, namely research that asks the relationship between two or more variables. The relationship used in this study is a causal relationship, the population in this study totaled 73 people from the 2017 and 2018 batches. The sample in this study was 73 taken using total sampling. The results of the study showed that there was a significant positive influence of the ability to think positively on academic resilience with an R2 of 0.552 on academic resilience. This shows that the percentage of the contribution of positive thinking and family support to the academic resilience of students who are working on a thesis in the Economics Education study program FKIP ULM is 55.2%.