THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HOLISTIC HEALTH COUNSELING BASED ON SELF REGULATION IN IMPROVING PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

Students must adapt to academic life including facing academic pressure, peer pressure, and unhealthy physical conditions due to physical and mental fatigue in doing various academic tasks. In addition, they must also adapt to non-academic life which is characterized by technological developments that are increasingly sophisticated and dominated by cyberspace in gadgets.All of those has the potential to make them physically, mentally, and socially unwell, which in turn makes them unhappy (has a low state of psychological well-being) in the lecture phase. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of holistic health counseling based on self regulation in improving psychological well being of students in universities.Thirty students in Semarang-Indonesia who scored low on Ryff's Psychological Well Being Scale participated in this study. An experiment using randomized pretest-posttest comparison group design was performed for a total of 41 days. The experimental group was given a holistic health counseling intervention based on self-regulation.Meanwhile, the control group was given effective physical health interventions and study habits. The Mann-Whitney U test was performed to compare the effectiveness of the experimental and control groups. The results showed that the intervention in the experimental group was more effective in increasing psychological well being of students compared to the control group. The results of this study are useful to be an alternative in helping students in Semarang - Indonesia in improving their psychological well being..