Self-concept and Academic Achievement Index on Bachelor Nursing Student

Abstract

he  students  who  have  a  positive  self-concept  are  students  who  can  understand  and accept some very diverse facts about him-self or her-self, so that the evaluation of him self or her-self becomes positive and can accept the existence of others. The purpose of this study was to  determine  the  relationship  between  self-concept  and  the  academic  achievement  index  on bachelor  nursing  student.  The  participants  involved  141  Bachelor  nursing  students  at  Sari Mutiara Indonesia University. The data was collected using the Tennessee self-concept Scale by William H. Fitts (1967) which explored about self-concept of Bachelor nursing students and Academic  Standard  Index  of  Sari  Mutiara  Indonesia  University  to  examined  Grade  Point Average on Bachelor nursing student, then the data were analyzed by using  descriptive statistic and Pearson Chi-square. The result,  self-concept of Bachelor nursing students was positive  (77.3%) and the academic index of  Bachelor nursing students was very satisfactory (45.5%). There was no statistical relationship between self-concept and achievement of academic indexes on Bachelor nursing students (p=0.06, p<0.05). Recommendations for future studies, need to explore factors related to achievement of academic indexes in Bachelor nursing students