The part of the phenomena of vocational high school students' (SMK) perplexity about their future profession options are attributed to their immaturity and lack of preparedness for the workforce. With an ex post facto study using a sample of 280 students from SMKN 6 Kota Semarang, the purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of peer social support and self-efficacy on their career maturity. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to test the research findings, and the results show that career maturity is highly affected by self-efficacy. In a similar vein, career maturity is greatly affected by peer social support. Thus, career maturity is affected by both peer social support and self-efficacy combined. These results help to clarify the requirements and difficulties faced by students when selecting their future careers, allowing for more targeted and efficient counseling.

Counselor candidates with high cultural awareness will be able to make new friends, develop good interpersonal skills, face stereotypes and prejudices about other cultures, create harmony between groups, and be more adaptive in a multicultural world. Regarding this issue, the present research strived for increasing cultural awareness in counselor candidates by implementing group counseling through a humanistic approach, a self-disclosure technique and a behavioral approach named modeling technique. It was a quantitative experimental study in the form of a two-factor pretest-multiple posttest control design. 30 research subjects were divided equally in the control group, the experimental group with a self-disclosure technique and the experimental group with a modeling technique. The subject data were collected using a culture awareness scale and analyzed using the repeated-measures mixed ANOVA test. It was found that the implementation of group counseling with the self-disclosure and modeling techniques was effective in increasing the cultural awareness of Guidance and Counseling students at UIN Salatiga. It is recommended that counselors use the same treatment to increase their cultural awareness.

Low social interaction skills and empathy can potentially raise problems in students. Therefore, this research aimed to analyze the effectiveness of behavioral group counseling with a modeling technique to improve students' social interaction skills and empathy at MAN 1 Palu. It used a pretest-posttest control group design in an experiment. In sampling, this research used a purposive sampling technique, while the data collection was done using the social interaction ability scale and empathy scale. Following the data collection, hypothesis testing was carried out based on the Wilcoxon sign rank test, the Mann Whitney test and the N-gain score test. According to the Wilcoxon sign rank test and Mann Whitney analysis, there was an increase in social interaction skills and empathy in the modeling group, while in the control group was no. It has proved that the behavioral group counseling with a modeling technique has been able to improve the social interaction skills and empathy of MAN 1 Palu students. Further research implications are discussed in the discussion section.

Besides physical factors, self-efficacy is a mental factor which can significantly improve pencak silat or martial arts athletes. Regarding this issue, the present study aimed at examining the effectiveness of group counseling with the combination of self-talk and modeling techniques to increase the self-efficacy of pencak silat athletes. It used an experimental method with the design of randomized pretest-posttest comparison group and involved 24 athletes selected using random sampling who were further grouped into three to receieve the treatment of self-talk, modeling, and the combination of both techniques in form of counseling. The athletes data were analyzed using Wilcoxon, Kruskal Walis, and Mann Whitney tests. Based on the findings, it is concluded the group counseling with the combination of self-talk and modeling techniques can increase the athletes’ self-efficacy. Further implications and limitations are presented in the discussion section.

Various activities at boarding school require students to own high hardiness and self-efficacy. Regarding this issue, the present study strived for analyzing the effectiveness of the Islamic-based Solution Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC) group counseling to increase the hardiness and self-efficacy of students at MTs Negeri 2 Brebes. An experimental method with the design of pretest-posttest control group was employed by involving 16 students. Based on the Wilcoxon test, the Islamic-based SFBC group counseling could increase the hardiness and self-efficacy of students at MTs Negeri 2 Brebes. Thus, the future studies can use SFBC counseling to increase matters related to human perspectives, such as self-confidence.

Students’ unreadiness in making proper career decisions will affect their chance of getting jobs in the future. The present research strived for determining the effectiveness of Theory of Work Adjustment-based career information services through ISORA game media as a means of revealing students’ career decision making difficulties. The research used quantitative research method in the form of Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design. There were 30 subjects that were divided into 15 subjects in the control group and 15 subjects in the experimental group. They were selected by random assignment. The data were collected using the Career Decision Making Difficulties Questionnaire Scale (CDDQ). The data analysis using the Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test showed differences before and after the intervention, while the intermediate test using the Mann- Whitney Test showed changes after the intervention. Therefore, this research confirmed that career information based on TWA (Theory of Work Adjustment) through the ISORA game media is effective in reducing the level of difficulty in career decisions making. Thus, further research counselors can develop this finding by combining the TWA with Holand's theory and other career theories.

Most child marriage cases somewhat harm the parenting process and self-efficacy. Regarding this issue, the present study examined the impact of social environment and parenting roles on parenting self-efficacy in child marriage couples. A quantitative approach with the ex post facto correlational design was employed by involving 109 respondents residing in two sub-districts in Semarang City. Based on the hierarchical regression test, it was found that (1) the social environment positively predicted parenting self-efficacy, and (2) democratic and permissive parenting styles positively predicted parenting self-efficacy. Thus, it can be concluded that the better the social environment and parenting roles' significance value, the more impact parenting self-efficacy in child marriage couples will have.

Academic engagement holds important and strategic potential to predict students’ performance progress in carrying out academic tasks and affect their achievement at school. Such an issue motivated the present research to analyze the effect of self-regulation and social support on students' academic engagement through academic buoyancy at the Junior High School (SMP Penggerak) in Surabaya City. A total of 365 samples were selected using a proportional stratified random sampling technique from a total population of 4,170. The self-regulation, social support, academic engagement, and academic buoyancy scales were used to collect their data. The findings suggest that self-regulation and social support could predict academic engagement and buoyancy. Academic engagement was fully mediated between self-regulation and academic buoyancy. Meanwhile, academic engagement was partially mediated by social support and academic buoyancy. Further implications of this research are reviewed in the discussion.

School counselors' use of technology is substantial and have many substantial effects on treatment. The purpose of this research is to examine how school sounselors' digital competence mediated the relationship between their digital mindset desire to use technology and readiness for change. Researched used correlational design to survey 90 middle school counselors from the Semarang Residency, who were chosen using a quota area random sampling technique. Participants were asked to rate their own level of preaparedness for change, digital mindset, digital competency, and technolgical intention. Data was examined by multiple regression and path analysis. The Sobel test was used to examine the mediation findings. Looking the statistics we can see that digital mindset greatly improves digital competence, and that readiness for change has a major impact on digital competence. Findings also showed that digital competence considerably effcts the intention to use technology, and that digital mindset and readiness for change bith have substantial impacts. In addition, the mediation analysis's findings showed that digital competence explains how digital mindset and openness for change affect technology use intention. School counselors and relevan organizations might use this study's findings to foster digital competence by training school counselors to think digitally and be open to change