The Effectiveness of Systematic desensitization Counseling Techniques to Overcome Student School Exams

Abstract

Anxiety on Anxiety is a thing that is often faced by individuals. In schools, not only low-achieving students experience anxiety when facing school tests/exams, but students who have high achievements can experience anxiety during school tests/exams. Feelings of anxiety occur when students are not ready for the exam. Individual counseling is an effort to help direct face-to-face relationships between counselors and counselees by using techniques systematic desensitization. This study aims to determine whether the counseling technique is systematic desensitization effective in overcoming the anxiety of class X students towards exams at SMA Negeri 1 Banjarmasin. The type of research used is quantitative research with experimental research design. The place of this research is SMA Negeri 1 Banjarmasin. The population in this study were students of class X. The sampling technique used purposive sampling, through inclusion criteria obtained 10 students as research samples. The research instrument used is the treatment material in the form of "Counseling Techniques Guide Systematic Desensitization" and the data collection instrument is an anxiety measurement scale.The data analysis technique used ANOVA (analysis of variance). Based on the test of the data obtained (1386.746 4.41) then Ho is rejected. Decisions can also be made based on the probability values ??listed in the Sig column (calculation using SPSS). If the probability is 0.05 then Ho is accepted. If the probability is 0.05 then Ho is rejected. From the above results, the resulting probabilities are 0.000 0.05, then Ho is rejected, meaning that there is a difference between the percentage of students' anxiety before being given individual counseling using techniques systematic desensitization and after individual counseling. Based on the results of this study, there are several things that need to be considered for users of the counseling technique guide systematic desensitization, further researchers and schools. This is that this research is still subjective because the researcher also acts as a counselor in the implementation of individual experiments or counseling.