Efficacy of online group counseling with mindfulness-based cognitive approach to enhance students’ humility

Abstract

Character building is an important part of the counseling services in schools. Humility is a character strength as a basic development of others' virtue. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of online group counseling with a mindfulness-based cognitive approach to enhance students' humility. This study is a pretest-posttest control group design with 16 students divided into experimental and control groups. To measure the students' humility, the authors used 32 items of humility scale (α = .901). Furthermore, to measure mindfulness skills using children and adolescence mindfulness measurement (α = .790). Based on the results of the paired t-test data analysis, obtained the pretest-posttest (t = 18,391; p = .56), posttest – follow up (t =-5,769; p = .001), and pretest – follow up (t =-30.549; p = .001). There was a significant change in the humility score which was marked by (p < .05). Comparison analysis between the control group (MD = 12.62; SE = .87; p = .001) was interpreted as a significant increase change in the students' humility. In addition, there is a significant interaction between students' humility in the group as evidenced by (F (2,4) = 56,764, P = .001, Ƞp2 = .73). As the result, there is a significant change in mindfulness group counseling effect on increasing humility and has a large interaction effect.