The Effect of Student Perception of Negative School Climate on Poor Academic Performance of Students in Indonesia

Wahyu Nanda Eka Saputra, Agus Supriyanto, Budi Astuti, Yulia Ayriza, Sofwan Adiputra

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A conducive school climate is one of the conditions that students must have to display positive academic performance. However, juvenile delinquency often results in student perception of a negative school climate. The study reported in this paper investigated the effect of student perception of a negative school climate on their academic performance in Indonesia. This is ex-post facto research in which the effect of student perception and examined retrospectively to establish causes, relationships, associations, and or their meanings. Data was collected using the perception of negative school climate scale (PNSCS) and academic performance scale (APS). The population of this study was 9,687,676 high-school students in Indonesia. The study used cluster sampling in which about 1,263 students were sampled. During the sampling of the participants for this study, the division of region's namely Western Indonesia (East Java), Central Indonesia (West Nusa Tenggara), and Eastern Indonesia (North Maluku) were taken into account. Data were analyzed using simple linear regression. The results of the study showed that student perception of a negative school climate had an effect of 58.7% on their poor academic performance. The study recommended that schools in Indonesia should create a positive school climate to create optimal student development by creating a strong commitment to peaceful thinking for all school members.

https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.19.2.17


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student perception; negative school climate; poor academic performance

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