Effect of Snake and Ladder Play Therapy to Lower Bullying of Teenagers

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10.2991/hsic-17.2017.69How to use a DOI?

Keywords

snakes and ladders play, therapy, bullying

Abstract

Nowadays the phenomenon of bullying ironically occurs among teens and it can affect the psychological condition of the teenagers who are bullied especially during the transition period, teens tend to break the bonds of parents and turn to peers for socializing. Those teenagers are required to conform with peers that have different characters, so there is a likely that such teens are influenced by more aggressive peers and engage in aggressive behavior as a way to gain recognition from their peers or even become victims of aggressive behavior and bullying peers because they cannot adjust well in the group which ultimately affect the physiological functions, even not unlikely that bullying can cause mental disorders later in life, both perpetrators and victims. Objectives: The aim of this study is to study the effect snake and ladder play therapy on lower bullying at teenagers. Method: This is quasi experiment with pre-posttest group design by giving a specific treatment in a group of subjects that were observed before and after the intervention. There were 32 sample respondents by treatment. This research used Wilcoxon test as statistical test to identify a decrease in bullying behavior before and after therapy of play snakes and ladders. Results: By bivariate test using Wilcoxon ranks test, the results showed that the significant value of 0.00 is smaller than α (0.05). Therefore, it can be stated that there are differences between before and after the intervention or treatment. Conclusion: Snake and ladder play therapy significantly can reduce bullying behavior at teenagers.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wahyu Endang
AU  - Mochamad Aspihan
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - Effect of Snake and Ladder Play Therapy to Lower Bullying of Teenagers
BT  - Proceedings of the Health Science International Conference (HSIC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 448
EP  - 451
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/hsic-17.2017.69
DO  - 10.2991/hsic-17.2017.69
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