The Role of Social Emotional Health on Academic Achievement of College Students

Hariz Enggar Wijaya,Intan Shabrina Yansaputri

doi:10.24127/gdn.v7i1.748

Abstract

Research on positive psychology has widely grown since its emergence. The strength of the human becomes a key point of positive psychology to explore, such as self-efficacy, optimism, self-control, etc. This research applied positive psychology to evaluate the role of social-emotional health on the academic achievement of college students. There were 107 first year psychology students of the Islamic University of Indonesia participating this study. Data were collected using the Social Emotional Health Survey System (SEHS-S) developed by Jones, You, and Furlong (2012) and Grade Point Average (GPA) of students. Data analysis showed that Social Emotional Health was correlated with GPA. Three domains within Social Emotional Health Survey System such as belief in self, emotional competence, and engaged living were positively correlated with GPA. However, belief in others does not correlate with GPA.

Highlights

Academic achievement is not a simple single concept about person learning capability.It has many factors influencing achievement.Traditionally, academic achievement linked with Intelligence test scores
Social emotional health data were collected by using Social Emotional Healthy Survey System (SEHS-S) which developed by Jones, You, & Furlong, (2012)
The main goal of this study is to explore the role of social emotional health on academic achievement among college students

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Academic achievement is not a simple single concept about person learning capability.It has many factors influencing achievement.Traditionally, academic achievement linked with Intelligence test scores. Academic achievement is not a simple single concept about person learning capability. Academic achievement linked with Intelligence test scores. (1996) reported, students' achievement correlates moderately with an IQ score He noted that academic success could not solely determine by Intelligence test scores, because it's only explain 25% of the overall variance. Cognitive test like Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores and high school GPA reported mainly predict college grade point average (Schmitt et al., 2009; Richardson, Abraham, & Bond, 2012)

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