Psychological Factors Affecting Bachelor Students’ Difficulties in Writing Thesis (A Mixed - Method Research of English Students of Iain Curup in Academic Year of 2020/2021)

Santia, Jeni and Prihantoro, Prihantoro and Gusmuliana, Paidi (2021) Psychological Factors Affecting Bachelor Students’ Difficulties in Writing Thesis (A Mixed - Method Research of English Students of Iain Curup in Academic Year of 2020/2021). Sarjana thesis, IAIN Curup.

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The main result of this research was to investigate about Psychological Factors Affecting Bachelor Students’ Difficulties in Writing Thesis. The objectives of this research are to find the Psychological Factors Affecting Students’ Difficulties in Writing Thesis. This research used a mixed method research design. Furthemore, the subject of the research were 57 students at eight semester English Students of IAIN Curup in Academic year 2021. The technique of collecting data used is questionnaire and Interview. Close-ended questionnaire and interview giude were used in this research. Close ended questionnaire was used to the the respondent to capture things experienced by students regarding psychological factors that caused them getting difficulties in writing a thesis. Interview giude was used to the extent to which psychological factor influenced students’ writing proses. The psychology factors can be seen from three aspects by Brown Theory. They are selfesteem, anxiety and motivation. Analysis data showed that Self-Esteem got a percentage of 73,0159 %, and it was high category, Motivation got a percentage of 68,2823 %, it was high category, and Anxiety gets a percentage of 65,3439 % and it was high category. Based on the questionnaire, it could be concluded that the most influential psychological factor in the difficulty of students writing a thesis of these three factors was Motivation. And then, based on the interview, the difficulties that students faced in writing thesis truly gave an effect towards the process of finishing the thesis itself. Knowing the factors affecting students’ difficulties in writing thesis were important. Keywords: Writing, Writing Thesis, Psychological factors.

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