The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Group Counseling on Mental Toughness of High School Students
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The purposes of this research were to develop a cognitive behavioral group counseling program to improve mental toughness of high school students and to also test its effectiveness in achieving the result. The sample consisted of 12 high school students of Pattaya City 11 School, Thailand. The research instruments included a 48 item Mental Toughness Questionnaire and the cognitive behavioral group counseling program. Through repeated measure design, the result data were analyzed by descriptive statistical analysis and multivariate analysis.
The results indicated that the cognitive behavioral group counseling program can be developed and made effective in improving mental toughness of high school students with positive increase by Cohen’s Large scale effect ES 0.600 ( 95% CI [-26.176 to -8.24]). The mean difference of mental toughness score between samples showed that total mental toughness scores of experimental group was significantly higher than of control group at p < .05 during following up period.
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บทความที่ได้รับการตีพิมพ์เป็นลิขสิทธิ์ของวารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยอุบลราชธานี
ข้อความที่ปรากฏในบทความแต่ละเรื่องในวารสารวิชาการเล่มนี้เป็นความคิดเห็นส่วนตัวของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านไม่เกี่ยวข้องกับมหาวิทยาลัยอุบลราชธานี และคณาจารย์ท่านอื่นๆในมหาวิทยาลัยฯ แต่อย่างใด ความรับผิดชอบองค์ประกอบทั้งหมดของบทความแต่ละเรื่องเป็นของผู้เขียนแต่ละท่าน หากมีความผิดพลาดใดๆ ผู้เขียนแต่ละท่านจะรับผิดชอบบทความของตนเองแต่ผู้เดียว
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