The Effect Of Assertiveness Training On The Management Of  Student Emotion In Preventing Violent Behavior

Authors

Assertive training, student emotions, violent behavior

Objective: This study aimed to determine the differences in student’s ability to manage emotions, before

and after intervention with Assertiveness Training to prevent violent behavior.

Method: This study was conducted in Vocational High School 1 and 2 Gunung Sari in Makassar, Indonesia.

The design of this study used the Randomized Control Group Pre Post Test Design. This research followed

by 60 subjects selected by simple random sampling. The research instrument used questioners adopted from

Agency and Tridhonanto (2009)1 using the Likert Scale. The data was analyzed using Independent T-Test

and Mann Whitney.

Result: The result showed that the score of students’ ability to manage emotions from 4 (four) sessions were

different. The score of intervention group was higher than the control group after 4 (four) training sessions.

There was no significantly differences among groups.

Conclusion: Students have sufficient ability to manage emotions before assertiveness training. There is an

increase in students’ ability in managing emotions after assertiveness training.

Maryati T1 , Rahman A2 , Erlina Y. Kongkoli3 , M. Askar4

1Associate Professor, 2Assistant Professor, 3Associate Professor, 4Assistant Professor, Nursing Department &

Center of Excellent on Urban Health of Health Polytechnic of Ministry of Health in Makassar, Indonesia