Efektivitas Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) untuk Meningkatkan Self Esteem pada Siswa SMP Korban Bullying

Abstract

This research is aimed to investigate the effectiveness of rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) in order to increase self esteem on junior high school – bullied victim. Rational emotive therapy is a therapy that aimed at changing irrational to be rational thinking so subject may feel him/herself valuable, adequate and accepted. Therapy takes place for ten hours and presented in four sessions with each session takes place about 2,5 hours. Subjects are 10 junior high school – students who physically, verbally and relationally bullied, have low self-esteem and score averagely minimum for IQ. They were divided randomly into five experimental groups and five control groups. Data were collected using Self-Esteem Scale, task sheet, subject house book and interview. Data analysis used non-parametcric statistics, that was comparative test (Mann Whitney and Wilcoxon) to compare the alteration of selfesteem scores on experimental and control groups. The results showed that rational emotive behavior therapy proven to be effective to increase self-esteem from low-category (pretest) to medium-category (post-test) and remains two weeks after the treatment given (p < 0,05). Analysis of qualitative data showed that rational emotive behavior therapy will be more optimal if given to a subject whose intellectual capacity is upper average and is actively involved when therapy is taking place.