The Effectiveness of Reality Group Counseling Therapy in Enhancing Multiple Intelligence among Malaysian Students with the Tendency of Problematic Internet Use (PIU)

Amin Al Haadi Bin Shafie,Nur Faizah Binti Abdul Kahar,Mohd Khairul Anuar Bin Rahimi,Roslee Bin Ahmad

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v9-i6/5944

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https://doi.org/10.6007/ijarbss/v9-i6/5944

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Abstract

This study was aimed to explore the effectiveness of group reality therapy in increasing students’ multiple intelligence, focusing on interpersonal skills. We employed quasi-experimental and pretest – posttest design with control group. The statistical population comprised primary and secondary school students in Malaysia, in which out of 24 students were from primary school and 22 students were from secondary school. Participants were selected purposely by school counselors based on students’ vulnerability of having problematic internet use (PIU). Participants then were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. The experimental group has undergone counseling session of group reality therapy, while the control group did not receive any intervention. The research tools included Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale 2 (GPIUS 2) and Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (ICQ-15). MIX ANOVA was used to analyze the data. The research results revealed that reality therapy in group counseling has increased the students’ interpersonal skills (P < 0.05).

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Information and communication technologies have become crucial parts in our lives and do give huge impacts in the lifestyles of today’s society
The above data shows that the level of problematic internet use (PIU) in which the standard deviation (SD) differs from moderate, high and severe
The results of the findings have shown that intervention (Reality group counseling) is very effective in improving student interpersonal skills significantly and is still sustained without intervention provided to students

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Information and communication technologies have become crucial parts in our lives and do give huge impacts in the lifestyles of today’s society. Teenagers, spend much of their time with technological devices for studying, searching for information on the internet, playing games, and communicating. Most of today’s activities require the society to use internet. As smart phones have become largely available, reaching internet is much easier and number of users is increased (Say & Batigun, 2016). Internet has become the most import things in today’s life and most popular medium utilized by the general population especially among adolescents. Studies of internet use have found several different results regarding the effect of the internet. Some view internet as positive development some views it as a negative distractive development

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