THE DEVELOPMENT OF GROUP DYNAMICS ACTIVITIES TO ENHANCE LIFE SKILLS ON VIOLENCE PREVENTION FOR ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

The objectives of this research article were to: 1) develop group dynamics activities to enhance life skill on violence prevention for adolescent; and 2) study the results of life skills on violence prevention for adolescent comparison between before and after participating the group dynamics activities. The participants were students who were studying in grade 5 and secondary 3 that were obtained from multi-stage sampling. The instrument used were the life skill on violence prevention test and The group dynamics activities to enhance life skill on violence prevention for adolescent. the process of group dynamic activities was integrated counseling techniques from psychological theory of counseling and psychotherapy which determines the direction of the activity. Statistics was used in this research, namely X-bar, Standard Deviation: S.D. and t - test. The research results can be concluded that: 1) the criterion set was also met as the efficiency score of activities package which include four sets of activities as follows: activity set 1: emotional management, activity set 2: recognition of self-esteem, activity set 3: problem-solving skill and activity set 4: appropriate relationship building skill was 82.50/80.19. 2) The result of life skills on violence prevention before and after participating are significantly different. After participating with the group dynamic activities, adolescents have a higher level of life skills on violence prevention than before with statistical significance at the level of .05.