The Effectiveness of Thought Stopping to Reduce Public Speaking Anxiety for the Students of Counseling Programs
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.220405.010How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Technique Tought Stopping; Public Speaking Anxiety; Counseling Programs
- Abstract
This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of thought stopping techniques to reduce the public speaking anxiety for the students of counseling program at the Faculty of Education Science. This study was using a quantitative research approach with the experimental research type. The experiments design was using quasi-experimental design with one group pretest-posttest design. The research populations were the students of class A and B Counseling Program totaling of 85 students. The sampling technique was using purposive sampling, with 6 students as an experiment group. The data collection instrumen was the scale of public speaking anxiety. The instrument validity was using product moment correlation, with results that 4 questions were failed and 38 were valid. The instrument reliability coefficient was calculated with 0.914 alpha formula. The data analysis technique was using nonparametric inferential statistical analysis technique with Wilcoxon test. The results showed that the technique of thought stopping was effective for reducing public speaking anxiety, evidenced by the value obtained from the Wilcoxon test for (Z=−2.201a) with Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) of 0.028. Based on the interviews, also showed that public speaking anxiety decreased after counseling given with thought stopping technique.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
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TY - CONF AU - Hapsari Christyaningrum AU - Budi Astuti AU - Lintang Waskita Puri AU - Martono Martono PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04/22 TI - The Effectiveness of Thought Stopping to Reduce Public Speaking Anxiety for the Students of Counseling Programs BT - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Innovative and Creative Guidance and Counseling Service (ICGCS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 52 EP - 57 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220405.010 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220405.010 ID - Christyaningrum2022 ER -