CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENT’S PERSONALITY TYPE AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AT ELED IN A PRIVATE UNIVERSITY IN YOGYAKARTA
Abstract
Academic achievement is affected by internal and external factors, including
personality. The aims of this study are to identify (1) the student‟s personality types
at ELED in one of a private university in Yogyakarta batch 2017 (2) to explore the
student‟s academic achievement at ELED in one of a private university in Yogyakarta
batch 2017 and (3) to find out the correlation between students‟ personality types
with academic achievement at ELED in one of a private university in Yogyakarta
batch 2017. This study used quantitative research design, and the quantitative method
adopted in this research was correlational design. The population of this study was
208 students at ELED in one of a private university in Yogyakarta batch 2017 and
132 students at ELED in one of a private university in Yogyakarta batch 2017were
taken as the sample. Questionnaire and document of student‟s GPA were used as the
instrument of this study. The result reveals that there are ninety - two (69.70%)
students with an extroverted personality. Additionally, there are forty students
(30.30%) with an introverted personality. All of the students are on the good category
of academic achievement with a mean GPA value of 3.44. The results show that the
significance value is 0.446, which is higher than 0.05, meaning that students‟
personality type and academic achievement do not correlate. It means that introvert
and extrovert personality can get high or low GPA score. Therefore, the Ha was
rejected.