Group Counseling with Self Management Techniques: Effective Strategies for Reducing Nomophobia Among Adolescents

Abstract

This study aimed to find out the effectiveness of group counseling with self-management technique in reducing nomophobia among adolescents. This experimental research applied one group pretest-posttest design. The participants in this study were eight Vocational High School students in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia, who were recruited using simple random sampling technique. The data of the study were collected using Nomophobia scale and analyzed using Wilcoxon test. Based on the result of data analysis, it could be concluded that group counseling with self-management techniques was effective in reducing nomophobia among adolescents, especially Vocational High School students in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. School counselors could use the result of this study as a reference to help students reduce nomophobia through group counseling with self-management techniques.