Open AccessSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF EFL STUDENTS AT HIGHER EDUCATION
Author(s) -
Sari Anggraeni Sujana,
Hariswan Putera Jaya,
Fiftinova Fiftinova
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of english literacy education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2621-4512
pISSN - 2355-7486
DOI - 10.36706/jele.v8i2.14328
Subject(s) - psychology , academic achievement , value (mathematics) , mathematics education , population , statistics , demography , sociology , mathematics
Colleges may find certain difficulties to achieve a good academic achievement, such as personal or social factors. One of the social factors is the ability of the collegians to adapt to their surroundings. It is concerned with how they adjust to the college environment, academic conditions, and people around them. The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between social adjustment and academic achievement, as well as the contribution of social adjustment to academic achievement among EFL Students in higher education. Total population sampling was used as the sampling technique. The sample consisted of 226 active EFL students. The study's instruments were the Social Adjustment to College Questionnaire and students' cumulative GPA. The findings revealed a very weak significant correlation between social adjustment and academic achievement, with the r-obtained value greater than the r-table value (0.192 > 0.131) and the p value less than 0.05 (0.004 0.05) in the significance level of 5% two-tailed. Meanwhile, Social Adjustment contributed 3.3 percent to academic achievement.