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European Journal of Education Studies ISSN: 2501 - 1111 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1111 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │Issue 11 │2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1134472 ADVERSITY INTELLIGENCE AS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR OF TUTOR’S PERFORMANCE Solfemai Department of Non-formal Education, Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Padang, Jalan Prof. Dr. Hamka, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia Abstract: This paper discusses adversity intelligence, tutor’s performance, and the contribution of adversity intelligence towards the performance of tutor in Learning Activity Center (SKB). The discussion in this paper is presented based on the research findings, where the research was done by using correlation research design and all tutors in Learning Activity Center of West Sumatra as the population. From the discussion, it can be concluded that there were many tutors in Learning Activity Center of West Sumatra whose adversity intelligence and performance were still low and the adversity intelligence had a significant contribution towards tutors’ performance. Keywords: adversity, intelligence, tutor, performance 1. Introduction Tutor is an important element in the Learning Activity Center/ Non-formal Education Units (Latchem, 2014) (Ngaka, Openjuru, & Mazur, 2012) (Witthaus et al., 2016). The success of a tutor can be seen through his performance (Affeldt, Weitz, Siol, Markic, & Eilks, 2015). This performance becomes an urgent in an institution, as without any performance then the goal of the institution cannot be achieved as expected (Witthaus et al., 2016). Performance or work performance is the execution of functions demanded from a person, it is an act, an achievement, a general exhibition of skills (Whitmore, 1997). Unfortunately, there are still many tutors who have not performed in accordance with Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 840 Solfema ADVERSITY INTELLIGENCE AS A CONTRI”UTING F“CTOR OF TUTOR’S PERFORM“NCE the performance expected. The factors affect performance are individual characteristics, organizational characteristics, and work characteristics (Kopelman, 1988). One of the individual characteristic factors affecting performance is Adversity Intelligence (Effendi, Mohd, Khairani, & Razak, 2015) (Song & Woo, 2015) (Verma, Aggarwal, & Bansal, 2017). Based on the background of the problem as proposed above, the purposes of this paper are to see: (1) An overview of the adversity intelligence of tutors in Learning Activity Center, (2) An overview of the performance of tutors in Learning Activity Center, (3) Whether there is a correlation between the adversity intelligence and performance of tutors in Learning Activity Center, and (4) How much the correlation between adversity intelligence towards tutors’ performance in Learning Activity Center is. For viewing / downloading the full article, please access the following link: https://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1339 European Journal of Education Studies - Volume 3 │ Issue 11│ 2017 841