Effectiveness Of Psychodrama Technique Group Guidance Services To Reduce Interpersonal Communication Anxiety In Students Of Class X State Senior High School 3 Malang

Abstract

Interpersonal communication anxiety is a concern about how others will judge oneself, including the way and content of delivery. Dependence on the judgment of others often reflects a lack of self-confidence. The impact of this anxiety can vary, including physical and psychological symptoms that cause individuals to withdraw from social environments, minimize communication, and only speak when absolutely necessary. As a result, they will have difficulty obtaining detailed information. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of effectiveness of group guidance services to reduce students' interpersonal communication anxiety. This study uses a quantitative approach, which is a method used to answer research problems related to data in the form of numbers and statistical programs. The approach in this study is a quantitative approach. The research design used is one group pre-test-post-test design , which is an experimental study carried out on only one group selected by the researcher based on certain considerations . The population referred to in this study were all 272 students in class X of Malang City High School . The sampling technique used was Random Sampling , namely data was taken randomly. The sample of this study was 10 students who had high, medium, and low levels of interpersonal communication anxiety. The instrument used is the interpersonal communication anxiety scale and the data analysis technique used is the Paired Sample T Test . The results of the study showed that from the initial data obtained 10 students experienced high, medium, low levels of interpersonal communication anxiety and after being given the psychodrama technique there was a decrease , namely 10 students were in the low category . Because the average value of interpersonal communication anxiety in the pretest was 55.2 > posttest 34 , then it means that descriptively there is a difference in the average level of interpersonal communication anxiety between the pretest and posttest results is ( 55.2> 34). Based on the output table "Paired Sample Test" it is known that the sig. (2-tailed) value is 0.00 1 <0.05, so Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. So it can be concluded that there is a difference in the average between the level of interpersonal communication anxiety pretest and posttest which means that the psychodrama technique is effective in reducing interpersonal communication anxiety in class X students of SM AN 3 Poor.