ability to act or act. Without self- confidence, humans
will not be able to develop themselves and their po-
tential to be better, because high self-confidence is an
aspect that greatly affects someone in the process of
creative thinking. Therefore, creative thinking is im-
portant to be given to students through the lecture pro-
cess. Besides self- confidence is important, it turns
out there is another aspect that says that psychoso-
cial Islam can also contribute well to students to de-
velop creative thinking processes in accordance with
the theory put forward by Khodijah (2006) that the
factors that influence creative thinking are Psychoso-
cial Islam. This is the reason for the researchers to
discuss this research related to the influence of Is-
lamic self- confidence and psychosocial on creative
thinking of Indonesian language and literary educa-
tion students. But the reality is not the case, there are
some students of the Indonesian Language and Litera-
ture Education study program who have not been able
to think creatively as expected. This can be seen based
on observations during lectures in the class in the even
semester of 2016/2017 that when students are told to
ask questions about the material being discussed, they
are unable to build good and quality questions. When
students are asked to answer questions, they are less
able to elaborate constructive answers. On the other
hand, when students give comments on the issues dis-
cussed, they are not smooth enough to provide argu-
ments so that it is difficult for other students to un-
derstand and are less flexible in describing examples
relating to questions. The low creative thinking of stu-
dents is assumed to be overcome by Psychosocial Is-
lam and Confidence. Among the factors that influence
creative thinking are self-confidence and psychoso-
cial Islam (Munandar, 1999). According to Khodijah
(2006) that the factors that influence creative thinking
are Psychosocial Islam. Creative thinking is an ex-
pression (expression) of the uniqueness of individuals
in interaction with their environment. The creative
expression reflects the originality of the individual.
From unique personal expressions, new ideas and in-
novative products can be expected and characteristics
such as: being able to direct oneself to a particular ob-
ject, being able to detail an idea, being able to analyze
ideas and the quality of personal work, able to cre-
ate a new ideas in problem solving (Munandar, 1999).
Creative thinking means breaking away from the gen-
eral pattern that has been embedded in the memory
and able to observe something that escapes the obser-
vations of others. Humans who think creatively will
produce creativity, it can be said that creativity is the
ability of individuals to use imagination and various
possibilities obtained from interaction with ideas or
ideas, other people and the environment to make con-
nections and new and meaningful results (Ministry of
National Education, 2008). Creative thinking teaches
students to think high and deeply with a smart, bal-
anced and accountable approach (Johnson, 2007). If
children are given the opportunity to use higher levels
of thought at each level of the class, they can finally
distinguish between truth and lies; appearance and re-
ality; facts and opinions; knowledge and confidence.
Naturally they can build arguments using reliable ev-
idence and logical logic.
Johnson (Siswono, 2004), creative thinking that
implies perseverance, personal discipline, and atten-
tion involves mental activities such as asking ques-
tions, considering new information and ideas that are
not usually with an open mind, making relationships
, especially between something similar, freely associ-
ating with each other, applying imagination to every
situation that evokes new and different ideas, and pay-
ing attention to intuition. Creative thinking means try-
ing to solve a problem by involving a view and facts
of data management in the brain (Uno Hamzah and
Muhammad, 2014). Whereas creative thinking is a
mental activity that solves problems, proposes meth-
ods, ideas or gives new views to an old problem or
idea (Husamah & Setyaningrum, 2013). In line with
that creative thinking is a mental activity that fos-
ters original ideas and new understandings (Johnson,
2007).
Creative thinking is a mental activity to find a
combination that has not been known before (Hu-
ludu et al., 2013). In line with that, creative think-
ing or creativity is a person’s ability to generate new
and useful ideas that are a combination of previously
existing elements to be able to solve the problem at
hand (Samsiyah et al., 2015). Meanwhile, different
thoughts about the definition of creative thinking that
creative thinking is the ability to find different ways
(Sudarma, 2013). People are called creative because
they are able to find ways that are different from oth-
ers, thus giving birth to different products. Creative
means different. Real creativity is the potential of all
people, but not everyone can take advantage of this
potential. Creativity is not someone’s natural talent
but must be guided and fostered because it depends
on the ability to think and use the division of labor of
the brain. According to the Ministry of National Edu-
cation (2008), the characteristics of creative thinking
are:
a Tend to see a problem as a challenge to show self-
ability
b Tends to think of alternative solutions / actions
that are not carried out by people in general
c Not afraid to try new things
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