ABSTRACT
Students who are graduated from senior high school, they will enter the college. Transition from high school to college requires academic adjustment among freshmen students in order to adjust especially in term of learning. Self-Efficacy beliefs provide the foundation for human motivation and personal accomplishment. We hypothesized that Self-Efficacy is important to succeed freshmen college students to adjust their Academic Adjustment. This study is produced in order to determine the relationship between self-efficacy and academic adjustments among freshmen college students. This study uses a quantitative approach through correlational method. This study also used Level of Academic Self-Efficacy Scale (Sachitra & Bandara, 2017) for measuring self-efficacy. Level of Academic Self-Efficacy scale include 19 items. For measuring the level of academic adjustments we used Academic Adjustment Scale (AAS) by Anderson, Guan, and Koc (2016). Academic Adjustment Scale (AAS) includes 7 items. This study involves 189 freshmen college students as the participants which consists of 75 males and 114 females freshmen college students. The data analysis shows that the correlation value r = 0.434 with p = 0.00, P<0.05. The result shows that self-efficacy has a positive correlation with academic adjustment among freshmen college students. Self-efficacy has significantly correlated with Academic Adjustment among freshmen students. The results were consistent with the hypothesis, showing that when freshmen college students have strong level of self-efficacy they will surely have strong level of academic adjustment, and in contrary if the freshmen college students have weak level of self-efficacy then they will surely have weak level of Academic Adjustment. The results will be discussed in this study.
KEYWORDS
Self-Efficacy, Academic Adjustment, Freshmen College Students