Effectiveness of Group Counselling Program with Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Reduce Risk of Game Addicting Behavior Among Junior School Students
Keywords:
Risk of game addicting behavior, group counselling program, online counsellingAbstract
The objective of this research was to study the effectiveness of group counselling program with cognitive behavior therapy to reduce risk of game addicting behavior among junior school students. The population used in the study was a junior high school student at an all-boys school in Bangkok. A sample of 105 people who were interested in participating in a group counseling program to reduce risky gaming behaviors was recruited. Simple random sampling was used to determine the research sample of 20 people and divided into experimental groups and control groups of 10 people each. The tools used in this research was as 1) Game Addiction Test, 2) Group counselling program. The results showed that, 1) There was a decrease in scores on game addiction test of experimental group which participated in counselling program. 2) There was no difference in scores on the game addiction test of control group which doesn’t participated in counselling program. The group counseling program with opinion and behavior therapy that the researcher created consisted of 6 activities according to the cognitive and behavioral therapy method consisted of: 1) relationship building activities 2) learning and understanding the relationship of thinking activities 3) comparing gaming and life activities 4) life and gaming graphs 5) peer counseling activities 6) summarized the activities, which takes 90 minutes per activity or 9 hours in total. This developed group counselling program has effect size of 0.19.
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