| Summary: | This study was aimed in understanding the role of ethnicity, paental
support and parent�s social status on achievement motivation of Indonesian-
Chinese and Javanese students. The respondets were taken using purposive
sample and obtained 212 respondents (116 as Javanese, 62 as Indonesian
Chinese, and 34 as other ethnicity) to fill in two research scales. The scales used
in this study are achievement motivation scale, parental support scale, and
respondents must fill in a number of questions in order to know the social status
of one�s parents. This study found that there are effects of ethnicity, parental
support, parent�s social status simultaneously on the student�s achievement
motivation of students (p=0,000, p<0,01). There is also an effect of ethnicity on
achievement motivation among Chinese-Indonesian and Javanese students
(p=0,000, p<0,01) whereas the Chinese-Indonesian students had a higher
average of achievement motivation than the Javanese as much as 5,236.
Another finding showed that there is a significant effect of parental suport on the
student�s achievement motivation (p<0,01), and there is a significant effect of
parent�s social status on student�s achivement motivation, (Fcalculated=5,0003
and Ftable=2,44). This research has proven that ethnicity, parental support and
parent�s social status does play a role on the achievement motivation of Chinese-
Indonesian and Javanese students.
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