Mulawarman, - Applying Mind-Skills Training to Improve Academic Hardiness on Guidance and Counseling Students with Academic Burnout. 2nd International Seminar on Guidance and Counseling 2019 (ISGC 2019).

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Abstract

Student's academic achievement are often sub- optimal, and burnout arises as one of its causes. Burnout can be countered when students possess academic hardiness. The present study was aimed at training students' mind skill in order to improve students' academic hardiness against burnout in the Guidance and Counseling Department of Semarang State University. This study was categorized as one group pretest- Posttest experimental study. Using purposive sampling technique, forty-six students were selected as participants of the study. The data were collected using academic hardiness scale and academic burnout scale, each scale is a Likert-scale consisting of fifteen items. The data were analyzed using Paired Sample T-Test, aiming at measuring the difference in students’ level of academic hardiness and academic burnout before and after the mind-skills training was conducted. The result exhibited the difference in students’ level of academic hardiness and academic burnout. It could be concluded that mind-skills training is effective to improve students' academic hardiness against burnout in BK UNNES. Further, it is expected that mind-skills can be an instructional purpose and be a part of the curriculum in BK UNNES, or at least become one of the objects of study in Basic Counseling Skill subject.

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