Identification of Factors Affecting Student Self-Confidence in the Alpha (Digital) Generation

Abstract

Every student will experience development in his life. In each of these developments, students must go through it well. Students will experience many changes in themselves, especially experiencing a lack of self-confidence. Self-confidence is an individual's awareness of the strengths and abilities they have, belief in a sense of self-confidence, feeling satisfaction with himself both mentally and physically and can act according to his certainty, and can control achieving the goals he hopes for. It is undeniable that achieving achievement in students' lives requires self-confidence, but the problem is that many students lack self-confidence even though they are good at academics. Therefore, self-confidence in students is not something that can grow and exist in a person by itself. However, each student has different self-confidence. Some students have high self-confidence and some have low self-confidence, when students have low self-confidence, these students are unsure of their abilities, tend to look at things negatively in dealing with everything, are afraid to be themselves, and find it difficult to control themselves. This is due to the many factors that influence student confidence. Because self-confidence is not simply attached to students and is also not innate. It is possible that the alpha generation must also have a high sense of trust. As we know, this alpha generation is the first generation born in the digital world and is a generation that is very familiar with digital technology. For this reason, it is necessary to study how this alpha generation as a student can have high self-confidence. This study aims to examine more deeply related to the factors that influence students' self-confidence. The method used in this research is a literature review. The literature that researchers used in this study consisted of books, scientific articles, and other quotations. This literature was collected and then analyzed to examine the factors that influence students' self-confidence.