Effectiveness of Expressive Writing Therapy Method on Psychological Well-Being of Students
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Expressive writing, Psychological well-being, StudentAbstract
The student stage is a period that is vulnerable to psychological problems. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of expressive wraiting therapy to improve the psychological well-being of students. This therapy is carried out online, where the subject receives instructions via chat and writes on the google from that has been provided. The therapy is carried out as many as two meetings with a span of 14 hours starting at 19.00-10.00 WIB working on therapy at each subject's leisure time. The subjects in this study were students. This study used a pre-experimental design, namely one group pretest-postest, which was conducted with only one treatment group. The measuring instrument used to measure psychological well-being in this study is the Ryff and Keyes (1995) psychological well-being scale which has been adapted to Indonesian language and culture by Rachmayani and Ramdhani (2014). This measuring instrument consists of 48 items with item correlation values ranging from 0.304 to 0.580 and measuring instrument reliability of 0.912. While the results of the Paired Samples T-Test test obtained in this research are p = 0.001 <0.05. This shows that expressive wraiting therapy has an effect on the subject's psychological well-being which has a significant difference between the psychological well-being of respondents before and after the intervention.
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