The effect of self-concept and social support on the learning motivation of social orphanage adolescents

Abstrak

Poverty is the background for some of the children in social institutions, making the children want to get improvements in life, the desire to get a decent life later by obtaining knowledge and formal education which makes them have high academic abilities to become capital to get a job and life worthy. The aspirations and desire to become successful and successful people motivate children to improve their current lives by participating in education and training programs held at the orphanage so they can get what they aspire to. Many factors influence learning motivation, one of which is self-concept and social support from parents, peers and the people around them. Self-concept is related to evaluation and self-assessment. While social support is support from other people who are loved and cared for, valued and valued and part of a communication network that complements each other. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of self-concept and social support on learning motivation. This study uses a quantitative approach and uses multiple regression analysis where researchers want to see the contribution of each independent variable with a sample of 90 adolescents. The research instrument is a scale of self-concept which is divided into four based on dimensions, namely subjective self, body image, ideal self and social self then the scale of social support is divided into five based on the type of support, namely emotional support, appreciation support, instrumental support, informative support and network support. Based on the results of hypothesis testing using regression analysis, the conclusions that can be drawn in this study are: For the null major hypothesis test (H0) it is rejected, because "There is a Significant Influence Between Self-Concept and Social Support on the Learning Motivation of Social Institution Adolescents". Furthermore, for the proportion of variance that can be explained by the Independent Variable (IV) from self-concept (subjective self, body image, ideal.