THE EFFECT OF STUDENTS’ SELF-ESTEEM ON THEIR READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT

Putri Rahmi Hayati, Ujang Suparman, Huzairin Huzairin

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah ada pengaruh antara penghargaan diri dengan kemampuan memahami bacaan dan apakah siswa dengan penghargaan diri yang tinggi lebih baik kemampuan memahami bacaanya dibandingkan dengan siswa yang memiliki penghargaan diri yang sedang dan rendah. Penulis memberikan soal-soal berupa teks kepada siswa dan angket untuk mengetahui tingkat penghargaan diri siswa. Penulis menggunakan desain Ex Post Facto pada penelitiannya dan One-Way Anova untuk menganalisa hubungan anta kedua variabel tersebut. Pada penelitian ini, ditemukan bahwa ada pengaruh yang signifikan antara penghargaan diri terhadap kemampuan memahami bacaan pada siswa dengan sig 0.000 (sig > 0.05).

This research is to investigate the effect of students’ self-esteem on their reading comprehension achievement and to find out whether students with high self-esteem get reading comprehension better than students with middle and low self-esteem. The writer administered the test of self-esteem and reading comprehension at the first year students. The writer used the Ex Post Facto as the research design and One-Way Anova to indicate the effect of students’ self-esteem on their reading comprehension achievement. In this research, the writer found that there is significant effect of students’ self-esteem on their reading comprehension achievement with sig 0.000 (sig > 0.05).

Keywords: achievement, reading comprehension, self-esteem


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