Effectiveness of Group Guidance Services in Increasing Self-Confidence

Abstract

Self-confidence is essential for every individual and an exception for foster children because self-confidence is needed to succeed. The research objective is to determine foster children’s self-confidence before and after getting group guidance services. This research used the quantitative method of pre-experiment design. The discovering of this research are 1) self-confidence before receiving group guidance service 58.3% in the medium category, 2) after receiving group guidance service 66.6% in the medium category, 3) test result Wilcoxon signed rank test obtained Zhitung = 2,670 and Ztabel = 1,645 with a significant level of 5% so that Zhitung>Ztabel. So there are differences in the self-confidence level of foster children before and after receiving group guidance services.