ENHANCEMENT OF SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING OF SECONDARY STUDENTS THROUGH GROUP COUNSELING

Abstract

             The purposes of this research are 1) to study social and emotional learning of secondary students; 2) to compare social and emotional learning before and after participating in control group in group counseling. The samples in this study consisted of two group. 1) The first group consisted of eight hundred and seventeen of secondary students by simple random sampling and second group of sixteen students form first group. Meanwhile, the subjects in experimental group included of secondary students whose social and emotional learning scores the 25th percentile, established by purposive sampling and voluntarily to participate in the group counseling. The research results were as follows 1)The social and emotional learning
of secondary students as a whole was at the medium level and each dimension
of social and emotional learning of secondary students were at medium level
2) The social and emotional learning of the experimental group after the experiment was and higher than before the experiment at a significantly increased level of .01
3) The social and emotional learning of the experimental group after the experiment was higher than the control group were significantly higher at a level of .01