EFFECTIVENESS OF SELF-EFFICACY TRAINING TO DECREASE COMMUNICATION APPREHENSION IN NEW STUDENTS

Abstract

In the process of learning, students always find problems that one of them communicates. New students often encounter this problem, from disturbing communication to interfering with academic processes. Besides, communication skills are also the basis that students must have to plunge into the field to become an entrepreneurship. The study aims to find out the impact of self-efficacy training on reducing communication apprehension in new students. The subjects in this study are 10 new students at Muahammadiyah University Riau Indonesia. Data collection is done using the communication apprehension scale. This research is a quantitative experimental study with a pretest-posttest control group design experiment with research analysis using Anava Mixture. The results showed that MD>5,000; p>0.05 was obtained which meant a decrease in communication apprehension on pre-post and follow-up results. The conclusion of this study is that self-efficacy training can lower communication apprehension in new students.