Cultivating Grit for Students Career Maturity: An Overview of Christian Education Approach to Combat Covid-19 Pandemic Effect

Abstract

Christian educators often struggle to motivate students in pandemic era. There was a big crisis among them to develop the ability to manage strong emotions and respond effectively to stressful situations, which affected to their career maturity. It was necessary to cultivate "perseverance and passion for long-term goals," named grit. The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of grit to career maturity. This study was a quantitative research, applied causal design. The research subjects were Christian college students in East Java, 90 in numbers, using random sampling. The analysis was done by using simple linier regression and obtained the coefficient of determination 0.923. It meant that grit influenced students' career maturity by 92.3%, while 7.7% was influenced by other factors. From the finding, to combat Covid-19 pandemic effect that caused students' career maturity had been decreasing, Christian educators should cultivate grit.

The Relationship between Grit Personality and Resilience

“…This reflects the perseverance of effort to overcome challenges which is a component of a grit personality. Consistency in learning interest and perseverance of effort to overcome the challenges encountered proves that university students are capable of maintaining their focus and effort in studies despite the changes in teaching and learning approaches and are able to quickly adapt to unexpected crises (Bono et al, 2020;Listio et al, 2020).…”

Konselor Sekolah dalam Mengembangkan Karakter Siswa Selama Covid-19

“…Ada krisis besar di antara mereka untuk mengembangkan kemampuan mengelola emosi yang kuat dan merespons secara efektif situasi stres, yang mempengaruhi pengembangan karakter menuju kedewasaan mereka. Itu perlu untuk memupuk ketekunan dan semangat untuk tujuan jangka panjang, yang disebut ketabahan (Listio, Simanjuntak, Butarbutar, & Setyowati, 2020)…”