International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research

Authors
Nurasyah, Enny Fitriani

Abstract
Improving the student’s emotional control through counseling group is very important to do. To determine the increase of the student’s emotional control of SMK Yayasan Pendidikan Pangeran Antasari through group counseling group, so a quasi-experimental research that involved two types of variables was conducted. The independent variable was the counseling Group, while the dependent variable was the student’s emotional control. The instrument used in this research was a questionnaire of students' emotional control. The results showed that there is an increase in emotional control through counseling group. The results of this study was proved with the hypothesis testing showed t count > t table, namely 5.19 > 1.83 at the 5% significance level, and the results of the questionnaire before being given treatment obtained an average score 97.60 of student’s emotional control and after being given group counseling for five sessions to discuss topics of emotional control was obtained to the average acquisition score =138.90.