The Effect of Group Guidance Against Adolescent Development Task Achievement In Emotional Aspects of Self-Reliance: Study Exsperimen SMP Frater Padang

Development task is a certain period in the life span of an individual. Teenagers have developmental task, one of them is emotional independence aspect. If the task could not be completed, it will cause the unhappiness for individual as well as the difficulties in solving the next developmental tasks. Teens that do not have emotional independence will always be dependent on parents or other adults so that when the teenagers growing up would have difficulty in completing development tasks. Group guidance can be used to help adolescent developmental task achievement in aspects of emotional independence. This study aims to reveal the effect of group guidance to adolescent developmental task achievement on emotional independence aspect. Experimental research with pretest and posttest control group design was used to test whether the effect of group guidance in adolescent developmental task of achieving the independence of the emotional aspect. Subjects in this study were 10 students eighth grade of SMP Frater Padang. To determine the amount of sample used purposive random sampling technique. The group guidance of the subject, held six meetings. Collected data on emotional independence through pretest and posttest, then analyzed by using Wilcoxson Signed Ranks Test by SPSS version 16. The findings of this study are there are significant differences between pretest and posttest conditions achievement adolescent developmental tasks in the emotional aspects of students' independence. Based on the findings above, it can be concluded that the achievement of the group guidance can affect the adolescent developmental tasks on the emotional aspects of self-reliance. This study shows that the importance of the use of group guidance in schools that can be done by BK teacher or counselor for adolescent developmental task achievement in emotional independence aspects. Similar research needs to be done but motivated by different contexts in order to compare the findings of this research.