THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GROUP COUNSELING REALITY FOR STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION BEHAVIOR

Abstract

This research is based on the observations and experiences of researchers that there are still many students who have high numbers of academic procrastination behavior. This is shown by students with the characteristics of procrastinating their assignments. High academic procrastination will affect students’ academic performance and will interfere with students' social life in the future. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of reality group counseling to reduce the academic procrastination behavior of vocational school (SMK) students. The research design used is one group pretest-posttest design. The intervention provided was reality group counseling which was carried out as many as 5 meetings. The subjects of the study were 9 students of class X SMK. The data retrieval technique uses an academic procrastination scale. The results of the analysis using the Wilcoxon signed ranks test showed the results of the sig level value. (2-tailed) 0.004 < 0.05 then Ho rejected and H1 accepted, thus indicating that reality group counseling techniques are effective for reducing students' academic procrastination. Article visualizations: