Effectiveness of Group Counseling using Wants, Direction, Evaluation, Planning (WDEP) Techniques to Improve Students’ Responsibility Attitude
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32627/jeco.v5i1.1173Keywords:
group counseling, WDEP technique, responsibility attitudeAbstract
esponsibility is an obligation that must be carried out by every
human being and a necessity to bear the risk of what has been done. For this
reason, as students at school, students need to have the attitude of
responsibility that students should have at school. To improve students'
attitude of responsibility, researchers conducted research on class VIII students
of SMP Negeri 2 Gamping to determine the effectiveness of group counseling
WDEP technique to improve students' attitude of responsibility. This research
uses quantitative methods. This research uses pre-exsperimental designs or
experimental methods with the type of one group pretest-posttest. The
population in this study were all VIII grade students of SMP Negeri 2
Gamping, totaling 151 students. The sampling technique that researchers used
in this study was nonprobability sampling with purposive sampling. The
sample in this study were 5 8th grade students. The instrument in this study
used a student responsibility attitude questionnaire. The analysis technique
used in this study used T test analysis. The results in this study show that the
hypothesis is proven that group counseling WDEP technique is effective to
improve the attitude of responsibility of students in class VIII SMP Negeri 2
Gamping. The results of the Anova test conducted obtained a t value of -8.398
with Sig = 0.001 <0.05. This means that group counseling with WDEP
technique is effectively used to improve the attitude of responsibility of
students of SMP Negeri 2 Gamping.