The effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation and deep breathing techniques toward stress scores of adolescents

Abstract

Adolescence was characterized by the adolescent identity crisis. Adolescents who experienced difficulty can be able to stress. Adolescents who experience academic stress are caused by exhaustion in learning, so many tasks, and full schedules of activities. Treatment which diminishes was of scholastic pressure thought reformist muscle unwinding and profound breathing unwinding methods. The reason for this exploration was to discover the viability of reformist muscle unwinding and procedures profound breathing unwinding toward stress scores in adolescents in the case of high school students in SMK N 1 Jogonalan, Klaten, Indonesia. During this research a quasi experimental design was used. The respondent for this investigation was the students of class X, each group has 9 participants. A random sampling technique was used for sampling. The instruments used were booklets, leaflets, and DASS. Bivariate factual test utilizing Paired ttest and Independent t-test was used for statistical analysis. The stress score was 19.00 before being given progressive muscle relaxation technique and after given progressive muscle relaxation technique, it was reported 16.33. Further, the stress score was 16.67 before the deep breathing relaxation was given and this was 13.78 after the technique of deep breathing relaxation was given. There was a difference in the viability of reformist muscle unwinding with profound breathing unwinding procedures in a pressure score that appeared p-value > 0.05.