ผลของการปรึกษาเชิงจิตวิทยาแบบกลุ่มตามแนวคิดพิจารณาความเป็นจริง ต่อกลวิธีการเผชิญปัญหาของนักเรียนชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 3 ที่มีผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียนต่ำ / วีณา มิ่งเมือง = The effect of group reality therapy on coping strategies of low academic achievement mathayom suksa three students / Weena Mingmaung
To study the effect of group reality therapy on coping strategies of low academic achievement mathayom suksa three students. The hypotheses were that (1) the posttest scores on the problem-focused coping scale and the reference to others coping scale of the experimental group would be higher than its pretest scores and the posttest scores of the control group. (2) the posttest scores on the nonproductive coping scale of the experimental group would be lower than its pretest scores and the posttest scores of the control group. The research design was the pretest-posttest control group design. The sample was 16 students in mathayom suksa three who have low academic achievement randomly selected from the students who scored below mid point on the problem-focused coping scale and the reference to others coping scale, and scored above mid point on the nonproductive coping scale. They were randomly assigned to the experimental group, and the control group, each group comprising 8 students. The experimental group participated in a group reality therapy program conducted by the researcher, for one and a half to two hours once or twice a week over a period of 7 consecutive weeks which made approximately 20 hours. The instrument used in this study was the adolescent coping scale developed from the Frydenberg and Lewis's adolescent coping scale. The t-test was utilized for data analysis. The results indicated that: (1) The posttest scores on the problem-focused coping scale and the reference to others coping scale of the experimental group were higher than its pretest scores and higher than the posttest scores of the control group at .01 level of significance. (2) The posttest scores on the nonproductive coping scale of the experimental group were lower than its pretest scores and lower than the posttest scores of the control group at .01 level of significance.