The Correlation Between Self-Control and Academic Grit Among Working Students in UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh

It is the fact that a number of university students decided to work during their study. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between self-control and academic grit among working students in UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh. This study used a quantitative approach with correlational method. The data collection used two scales; Self-Control scale by Averill (1973) and Academic Grit scale by Duckworth (2007). The total population is 22,147 UIN Ar-Raniry students with a sample of 200 students working at UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh. Sampling used non-probability sampling method with purposive sampling technique. The results showed a correlation coefficient (r) of 0.666 with p = 0.00 which indicated that there was a very significant positive relationship between self-control and academic grit on students working at UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh. This means that the higher the self-control, the higher the academic grit, conversely the lower the self-control, the lower the academic grit for students working at UIN Ar-raniry Banda Aceh.