Difficulty in Mathematics: Close Assistance and Self-Confidence

Abstract

Self-confidence is the belief in oneself and one’s abilities. It is developed when there is someone who help them and motivate them to believe themselves. Self-confidence is the positive result of self-esteem. Self-confidence can be learning and built through assistance. Assistance from someone can help students to improve their self-confidence and the insecurity to their selves will be gone. The researcher aims to assess if the close assistance can help develop the students’ self-confidence and cope up their difficulty in mathematics. The researcher used descriptive-correlation using a questionnaire and composed of 20 adapted questionnaire related to the study. 243 students answer the survey questionnaire in their respective classroom and after data gathered it has been analyzed using the weighted mean and Guttmann’s Lambda to determine the relationship between the close assistance and self-confidence. The study revealed that there is a significant relationship between close assistance and self-confidence which is the p-value is lesser than the alpha which means that assistance and self-confidence is correlated with each other. The researcher concludes that with the help of close assistance students’ difficulty decreases and self-confidence increases.

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“…It has been previously reported that the students' justifications for decision while solving problems demonstrate their self-confidence and their beliefs was observed to be more influential than their mathematical understanding (Sumpter, 2013). Moreover, Self-confidence has been understood differently in the mathematics education literature where (Aulia et al, 2021;Moneva & Valle, 2020) explains that self-confidence is a belief in oneself and one's abilities that develops when there is someone who helps them and motivates them to believe in themselves. Foster (2016) also explained mathematical confidence as the student's view of their capacity to obtain satisfactory results as well as the confidence in their ability to deal with mathematical issues.…”

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