ACADEMIC RESILIENCY OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF UIN IMAM BONJOL PADANG WHILE FINISHING THEIR THESIS DURING PANDEMIC

Abstract

Students who feel burdened and experience various difficulties in doing thesis, because they feel confused starting to do it. These problems and challenges are often faced by students in undertaking thesis work. Therefore students who are working on a thesis need a high level of resilience from within themselves in order to be able to
endure difficult conditions and try to finish the final task. Resilience, usually also referred to as academic resilience. The purpose of this study was to determine the description of academic resilience of students who are taking thesis. This research is a quantitative descriptive study with incidental sampling technique with a
total of 90 subjects and the instrument used was academic scale academic resilience scale (ARS-30). The results of the study show that the picture of academic resilience in the final students in the high category is 80% compared to students with a low academic resilience category of 20%.