The Effects of Integrative Group Counseling to Enhance Self-appreciation of Prathom Suksa IV-VI Students at Ban Sar School, Trang Province
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Objectives : To 1) compare the self-appreciation of experimental group elementary students before and after participating in group counseling and 2) compare the self-appreciation between experimental group elementary students that participating in group counseling and control group elementary students. Materials and methods: Study sample were 18 people at grade 4-6 students in Bansar school. They were divided into experimental group and control group, each of which containing nine subjects. The experimental group received eight sessions of group counseling each of which 60 – 90 minutes, while the control group received usual study activity. The research instruments used in this study were (1) an integrative Group Counseling program for enhance self-appreciation of elementary students and (2) the self-appreciation questionnaire of elementary students, with the reliability coefficient of .84. The statistical analyses employed were nonparametric using The Wilcoxon Pairs Signed Ranks Test and The Mann-Whitney U Test. Results: The findings showed that (1) the post-experiment level of self-appreciation of elementary students in experimental group, who had received group counseling, was significantly higher than pre-experiment counterpart level at the .05 level of significance; and (2) after received group counseling level of self-appreciation of elementary students in experimental group was significantly higher than control group at the .05 level of significance. Conclusion: The integrative group counseling can enhance self-appreciation of Prathom Suksa IV-VI students.
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