Social Support and Self Compassion as Predictor Variables on Academic Grit of Final Year Students

This research aims to determine whether there is a significant influence between social support and self-compassion on final year students' academic grit. The hypothesis in this research is that there is a significant influence between social support and self-compassion on the academic grit of final year students. The method used is a quantitative method with the sampling technique in this research using convenience sampling with the number of samples in this research being 256 final year students who are still actively studying at the Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga. The scales used in this research are the Academic Grit Scale (AGS) created by Clark & Malecki, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) created by Zimet and the Self-Compassion Scale (SWD) created by Sugianto et al. The data in this study were analyzed using Multiple Linear Regression with the SPSS version 25 program. The results of the analysis prove that there is a simultaneous influence between social support and self-compassion on final year students' academic grit, with an F value of 42.361 with a significance value of 0.000 (p < 0.05). And the coefficient value (R2) is 0.251, which means that the contribution of social support and self-compassion to the academic grit of final year students is 25.1%, while 74.9% is influenced by other variables such as interests, hopes and self-efficacy.