Abstract
Students who have high self-efficacy can design career plans and show persistent efforts. However, this efficacy is not always owned by every single student since there found many students having difficulties in making career decision. Thus, this study tried to examine the effectiveness of psychoeducational group with symbolic modelling and bibliotherapy techniques to improve the career decision making of Junior High School students. In carrying out the study, the researchers employed randomized pretest-posttest comparison group design by involving 42 students divided into three experimental groups. Students’ data were collected using career decision making self-efficacy scale. Based on Wilcoxon test results, the implementation of the psychoeducational groups with symbolic modelling technique, bibliotherapy, and the combination of both techniques were effective to improve students’ career decision making self-efficacy. In details, Kruskal wallis test showed that symbolic modelling and bibliotherapy techniques were more effective than their combination to improve the career decision making self-efficacy of SMP Negeri 6 Bogor students. According to these findings, counselors are recommended to apply symbolic modelling and bibliotherapy techniques separately to improve students’ career decision making self-efficacy
Highlights
Career decision self-efficacy has been becoming a theoretical and empirical concern given its roles in predicting one’s behavior and its tendency (Song & Chon, 2012). Utomo (2016) proves that students with high selfefficacy will be able to design their career plan well
This study strived for examining the intervention of the psychoeducational group with the techniques of symbolic modelling and bibliotherapy to improve the career decision making self-efficacy of Junior High School students
The results of Mann Whitney Test prior and after the intervention was given. It showed no difference in the intervention meant that students in high school truly need effectiveness between the psychoeducational group with symbolic modelling technique and sufficient career services, especially those which the psychoeducational group with bibliotherapy are aimed at improving career decision making technique in improving career decision making self-efficacy
Summary
Career decision self-efficacy has been becoming a theoretical and empirical concern given its roles in predicting one’s behavior and its tendency (Song & Chon, 2012). Utomo (2016) proves that students with high selfefficacy will be able to design their career plan well. This study strived for examining the intervention of the psychoeducational group with the techniques of symbolic modelling and bibliotherapy to improve the career decision making self-efficacy of Junior High School students. Instrument which consists of 25 items was adjusted to the conditions of junior high school students in Indonesia and shrank to 35 items covering five aspects, namely: 1) Self-appraisal, 2) Occupational information, 3) Goal selection, 4) Making plans for the future, and 5) Problem solving with a reliability score of α = 0.909. This experimental study used randomized pretest-posttest comparison group through some steps. The data analysis technique used in this study was Wilcoxon test and the Kruskal Wallis test
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