Abstract:
Education is one thing that is very important and plays a big role for a person. The
education that schools get can facilitate a person's needs and will later be useful for
his future. However, in the educational process at school, students often experience
stress due to their inability to adapt to the program at school. This study aims to
determine the relationship between hardiness and student engagement in students
of SMP Negeri 1 Banjarbaru. The sampling technique used in this study was total
sampling; that is, all 9th-grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Banjarbaru totaling 312
people, were used as research subjects. The data analysis method used is the
product-moment correlation of Karl Person, and the data collection method uses the
hardiness scale and student engagement scale. The results showed that the
relationship between hardiness and student engagement in SMP Negeri 1 Banjarbaru
students had a correlation of 0.121 and a significance level of 0.000. The results of
data analysis show that there is a positive relationship with very low significance
between hardiness and student engagement in students of SMP Negeri 1 Banjarbaru.
The lower the hardiness , the lower the student engagement, on the contrary the
higher the hardiness , the higher the student engagement. The effective contribution
of hardiness to student engagement is 1.47% and 98.53% is influenced by other
factors not exmined in this study.
Keywords: Student engagement, Hardiness, Student
