THE ENHANCEMENT OF STUDENTS’ RESILIENCE THROUGH GROUP COUNSELING

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to examine the students’ resilience, reconstruct group counsellingprograms to enhance the students’ resilience, and compare the effectiveness of group counseling enhancing the students’ resilience. The population of the study consisted of 1,042 students studying in Year 1-3 at the Faculty of Education, Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok, Thailand, in the academic year 2021. Using a purposive sampling, samples were 180 students studying in Year 1-3 at the Department of Guidance and Education Psychology, Faculty of Education, Srinakharinwirot University, academic year 2021. From those 180students, 12 students have the moderate scores on resiliencefrom the 25th percentile and below. There 12students were separated into two groups. Six students classified as an experimental group for participation in the counseling program, and another six students as a control group. The research instrument was a student’s resilience test with reliability coefficient (alpha) of .91 and the counseling program for the development of resilience with item objective congruent (IOC) ranged from .60-1.0. The d escriptive statistics and Parametric statistic method(Two -Way ANOVA Repeated Measurement) were used to analyze the data. The results of the study were as follows: 1. The resilience level of Year 1-3 at the Faculty of Education, Srinakharinwirot University reveals that students have a high level of overall and individual resilience. When considering each aspect, Active Coping have the highest score, followed by Encouragement and Hardiness.2.Group counseling to enhance students' resilience consists of 3 stages: Initiation, action and conclusion. 7 Theories and 14techniques of group counseling were applied to strengthen students' resilience.3.Statistically significant differences among the experimental group and control group were found to exist before counseling, after counseling and after the follow up period at the .05 level. The results of this study has shown that the group counseling has a positive effect towards the students’ resilience.