Effectiveness of Behavioral Counseling Services Self-Management Techniques to Reduce Social Media Addiction in High School Students

Abstract

Teenagers with high social media addiction need help to limit their use of social media, this is important so that students do not continue to depend on social media. This research aims to analyze the effectiveness of behavioral counseling services on self-management techniques to reduce social media addiction in high school students. This type of research is quasi-experimental research with a non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design. The population of this study was 199 high school students. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling. The data analysis method uses parametric statistical analysis, namely by using a paired sample t-test and followed by an effect size test. The results of this study show that behavioral counseling services, self-management techniques, are effective in reducing social media addiction in high school students (t = 27.86 with p < 0.05), the results of the hypothesis test posttest score for the experimental class and control class (t = -5.976 with p<0.05), the effect size test results for the experimental class were 10.3, the effect size test results for the control class were 5.61, and the effect size test results for the posttest scores for the experimental class and control class were -5.45. Thus, it shows that there is significant effectiveness of behavioral counseling services in self-management techniques to reduce social media addiction. Providing treatment to students with self-management techniques can change the paradigm of guidance and counseling teachers in schools when counseling high levels of social media addiction among students.