THE EFFECT OF CURIOSITY ON SELF-CONFIDENCE AND PERSISTENCE

There are three important things to consider in supporting successful learning, namely curiosity, self-confidence, and persistence. The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of curiosity on self-confidence and persistence. This type of research is quantitative research. By using a random sampling technique, the sample of this research was 65 students in one semester of the mathematics education study program at the Islamic University of Malang. The data collected in this research is the result of a questionnaire about curiosity, self-confidence, and persistence. The questionnaire in this study consisted of a questionnaire about curiosity, self-confidence, and persistence. The questionnaire used in this study has met the validity and reliability. The results of the questionnaire were analyzed by correlation test and regression test with SPSS. The results showed that there was a correlation between curiosity with self-confidence and persistence. The results also show that curiosity has a positive effect on self-confidence by 19.6% and curiosity has a positive effect on persistence by 38.4%. This means that the effect of self-confidence is higher on persistence than selfconfidence. Learning is expected to raise a high curiosity so that students' self-confidence and persistence can increase.