Effectiveness of Reality Group Counseling to Enhance Students’ Self-efficacy in High School

Abstract

Self-efficacy is very important to improve because it is related to student academic achievement. Self-efficacy is the ability to understand self-confidence to overcome situations that are controlled in the process of thinking, acting, feeling and motivating. This study aims to increase self-efficacy with reality group counseling intervention. The research group was divided into the experimental group, namely the reality group counseling and the control group (treatment as usual). Each group has 7 high school students with an age range of 15-17 years. The measurement process is carried out using a self-efficacy scale. In the intervention process, the experimental group was given the Wants, Direction, Evaluation and Planning system. The purpose of giving WDEP is so that group members are able to explore their needs and desires, understand current behavior, evaluate effective and ineffective behavior and facilitate effective behavior change planning. Group members are expected to be responsible for the choices that have been made. The results of this study indicate that there is a significant change in the increase in self-efficacy in the experimental group which is higher than the control group. In addition, statistically shows that there is a large influence of reality group counseling in increasing self-efficacy. The limitations of the study and recommendations for further research are discussed in this article.