SELF-CONCEPT ANALYSIS OF CLASS VIII JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS STATE 23 PADANG

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The background that underlies the conduct of this research is because students often feel insecure when working on questions, especially when the teacher is asked to do them on the board. This insecurity causes students to give up easily when there is a problem they consider difficult. Self-concept in junior high school students about mathematics is low so that it causes students to feel insecure about mathematics lessons which are called mathematical self-concepts. The method used in this research is a mix method research method or a combination research method. The instrument in this study was a questionnaire obtained from a mathematical self-concept questionnaire and interview guidelines. The subjects in this study were students of class VIII SMP Negeri 23 Padang, totaling 30 students. This study shows that the results of students' mathematical self-concept are divided into 3 levels, namely (1) high as many as 5 students (16%), (2) moderate as many as 20 students (67%) and, (3) low as many as 5 students (17%) For the level of the mathematical self-concept indicator, the highest indicator is indicator 4 with the number of questionnaire results, namely 423, and the lowest is indicator 5 with the number of questionnaire results, namely 385.