Low-income Family Environment: Subjective Well-Being and Children Learning Motivation

Abstract

Subjective well-being is one of the variables that affect students' motivation came from low-income families, because of the tendency of students from low-income families have a low assessment of the happiness of his life (subjective well-being). This article describes subjective well-being and learning motivation of students coming from low-income families and examines whether there is a relationship between subjective well-being and student learning motivation coming from low-income families. The article of this research uses a descriptive quantitative approach with correlational research methods. The study population was the students who receive low-income aid students in 2015 with a sample of 152 students, selected by multistage random sampling technique. The instrument used is the scale of a subjective well with students' motivation come from low-income families and reliable with Cronbach Alpha value of 0.909 and 0.923. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics. The research findings show that (1) students'subjective well-being is in the high category, (2) students' learning motivation belongs to a high category, (3) there is a significant positive correlation between subjective well-being with student learning motivation coming from low-income family.