The goals of article was to explore students’ main motivation in learning Mandarin as second language acquisition and the difference motivation between Chinese-descending and non-chinese students. There were 276 respondents chosen by purposive sampling from three universities. They were students from Mandarin Department of Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Darma Persada University, Jakarta, and North Sumatera University, Medan. A cooperation on deciding research instruments was collaborated with Faculty of Tionghoa Language and Literature of Huaqiau University, China. Descriptive analysis was done to explore students’ main motivation in learning Mandarin, continued by different tests to know the different motivation between native and descending students. Research results indicated that the motivation in learning language is low; there is no significant difference between integrative and instrumental motivation. Also, there was no motivation significant different between chinese-descending dan non-chinese students in learning Mandarin. Lecturers should develop their methods of teaching to develop students’ learning motivation in learning Mandarin.
This research is to acknowledge causes why drug users in late adolescent, who had followed drug recovery program in drug rehabilitation centre, are relapsing at the time they came back to subject environment. This research’s background is supported with the increasing numbers of drug addictive users in Indonesia, especially in adolescent. The result of this research showed an uncondusive situation, such as conflict with parents (father) when they got back to house environment, causes they are coping maladaptive, i.e. relapse. Conflict with father causes adolescent has negative perception towards social support from the father, and it effects their religious orientation and locus of control. For future research, it is suggested to do quantitative research so it can be gained measurable result statistically.
The research investigated the relationship between effortful control and emotional reactivity in students. It also analyzed the description of each variable descriptively based on the levels of effortful control and the level of emotional reactivity. The method was by self-report through questionnaires distributed to students aged 18-30 years. There were 357 participants that were consisting of 94 male students and 263 female students. The measuring instrument was the Effortful Control from the Adult Temperament Scale Questionnaire (ATQ) Scale-Short form, and the Perth Emotional Reactivity Scale-Short Form scale. The result shows that there is a positive significant relationship between effortful control and positive emotional reactivity. However, the research shows that there is a negatively significant relationship between effortful control and negative emotional reactivity. It states that students with high levels of effortful control have high positive emotional reactivity. Likewise, students who have low levels of effortful have low positive emotional reactivity. However, individuals who have a high level of effortful control have low negative emotional reactivity and vice versa.
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