Self-Compassion And Academic Resilience Among First-Year College Students

Abstract

There are many challenges during the first year of college among students therefore they need the ability to survive or resilience. The factors that influence the level of student resilience is self compassion. This research was aimed to determine the relationship between self compassion and academic resilience in first-year college students in Yogyakarta. The participants were 200 first-year students in university. This research used a quantitative method with purposive sampling technique. The research used is quantitative research involving 200 participants in Indonesia which the data collecting used Self Compassion Scale (SCS), for measuring self compassion and Academic Resilience Scale (ARS) measuring academic resilience. Processing data used Pearson Product Moment correlation analysis technique with SPSS 23. The finding shows there is significant positive correlation between self compassion and academic resilience in first-year students in university (p=0.000, r=0.547), which indicates that there is a significant relationship between self-compassion and academic resilience. The higher the level of academic resilience they have will also increase. Conversely, the lower the level of self-compassion possessed by students who are taking their first year of lectures, the lower their level of academic resilience.