Shaping: The Techniques to Improve Student Prosocial Behavior with Group Counseling

Abstract

This study aims to test the effectiveness of group counseling with shaping techniques to improve student prosocial behavior.This research is motivated by low prosocial behavior in students. The effort in helping students overcome the problem of prosocial behavior research is conducted by the experimental method with a pre-experimental design using the form of an intact-group comparison. The collection of data through scale for measuring prosocial behavior, obtained 8 students who have low prosocial behavior. The data analysis technique used the t-test test formula, showing that thit> tab (10.37> 2.447 with a probability of error of 0.05 or 5%). Thus it can be concluded that: "Group counseling using shaping techniques is effective in improving students prosocial behavior, which is marked by an increase in the percentage of students' prosocial behavior scale". To facilitate the use of shaping techniques to improve prosocial behavior, the next researcher must make a strong report card and identify problems in advance so that the use of these techniques can be continued with the goals to be achieved