THE EFFECT OF GROUP COUNSELING PROGRAM TO PROMOTING SELF-ESTEEM AMONG UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
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Adolescence is the age of many changes, it may have some behavior problems occur during this age, for example, fighting, substance abuse which is caused by low self-esteem. The purpose of this study is to develop and study the effect of group counseling program to promoting self-esteem among upper secondary school students. Two groups from Secondary school students (n = 16), were selected with purposive sampling method. Students were divided in experimental group (n = 8) and control group (n = 8) with matched group method. The Quasi-Experimental research was applied in this study. The research instruments in this study were group counseling program and the revised version of Thai Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (r-Thai RSES) Cronbach's alpha was 0.86. The t-test dependent and independent statistic were used to analyze in this study. The result presented that after participating the group counseling program, the experiment group had a higher mean score of self-esteem ( = 31.38, SD = 3.58) before participating in group counseling program (
= 28.13, SD = 4.29) which is statistically significant (p < 0.05) compare to the control group before participating (
= 28.38, SD = 4.21) and the control group after participating (
= 27 , SD = 3.85) which is no significant difference (p > 0.05).
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