Hubungan Dukungan Sosial Dosen Pembimbing Akademik Dengan Optimisme Menyusun Skripsi Pada Mahasiswa

Abstract

One of the tasks that must be done by the final year students is to do it thesis. What often happens to final year student is the lack of optimism in completing the thesis. The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of academic supervisors’ social support on optimism in student at the Faculty of Psychology UNM who is completing the thesis. The subjects of this research are amounted to 147 students of the Faculty of Psychology Universitas Negeri Makassar who is completing the thesis. The sampling technique in this research is accidental sampling. The measuring instrument used is the scale of optimism and academic supervisors social support scale. The data analysis technique used in this research is spearman rho. Based on the results of data analysis, the correlation coefficient value (r) of 0,394 of and significance (p) of 0,000 means that there is a positive relationship of academic supervisors’ social support with optimism on college student in completing the thesis at the Faculty of Psychology Universitas Negeri Makassar. The higher the social support of the academic supervisor, the higher the level of student optimism, conversely the lower the social support of academic supervisor, the lower the level of student optimism. The implication of this research is to provide a picture related to the effect of academic supervisors’ social support with optimism in student at the Faculty of Psychology UNM who is completing the thesis.