The Effectiveness of Rational Emotive Behavior Group Counseling Against the Assertive Behavior of Students SMP N 1 Mlati, Sleman, Yogyakarta

摘要

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of rational emotive behavior group counseling against the assertive behavior of students SMPN 1 Mlati, Sleman, Yogyakarta. Rational emotive behavior group counseling has not been used for counseling process at SMPN 1 Mlati, Sleman, Yogyakarta. This research was a quantitative research with quasi experimental research design and randomized control group pretest-posttest design. The research subjects were taken by purposive sampling technique. Subjects of the study were 12 students from grade VII, VIII, and class IX who had low assertive behavior and were willing to attend group counseling sessions. Methods of data collection used assertive behavior scale. The data were analyzed using different test of Wilcoxon matched pairs signed rank test to know the difference of assertive behavior score between the experimental group and the control group. The result of the research showed that rational emotive behavior group counseling was not effective to improve the assertive behavior of students of SMPN 1 Mlati, Sleman, Yogyakarta. There were several factors that were suspected to be the cause of rational emotive behavior group counseling to be not effective against assertive behavior of students. These factors were relatively short time counseling and less conducive counseling sites, lack of interpersonal closeness between counselor and counselee, and other techniques that could also be used to improve student assertive behavior.