Regulasi Diri Mahasiswa Berprestasi

Abstract

Self-regulation is long understood as a significant factor that influences student\u27s academicachievement. Self-regulation refers to self-generated thoughts, feelings, and actions that areplanned and cyclically adapted to the attainment of personal goals (Zimmerman, 2000). High-achieving university students are assumed to regulate themselves to achieve high score inacademic task and to maintain extracurricular activities harmoniously. This study is purposed to understand the process of self-regulation of high-achievinguniversity student. Participant of this study is two university students that won title“Mahasiswa Berprestasi” through annual competition “Pemilihan Mahasiswa Berprestasi” inIndonesia. Using transcendental phenomenological analysis method (Moustakas, 1994) ofdata from the participants, the author identifies 12 general themes of self-regulation,synthesizes them into a textural-structural synthesis, and develops essences of the experience.The participants regulated themselves to gain achievement in many areas of life. The findings show self-regulation as having effort to attain personal goal and to fulfill social expectation of being succesful and beneficial person, holistically. The process of self-regulation occurs in interreliant relationship with others by which having good social relationship is its important part dan dependant relationship toward God as believed that God is The Determiner over everything including human\u27s effort successfulness or failure. Motivated by the desire of having good life in the present and future and avoiding bad luck of being a loser and therefore, harming other people life, the process is never ending. The cycle is always renewed along with the appearance of new tasks, responsibilities, targets and goals in one\u27s life