The Effectiveness of Reality Therapy for Decreasing Self-Motivation Problems of Lower Group Students

摘要

The purpose this study is to investigate the effect of reality therapy on self-motivation problems. The design of this research is mix-methods. Two vocational high school students have involved the experiment based on the initial identification of the selection with purposive sampling techniques. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, non-parametric statistics Wilcoxon Test, and qualitative study with conversational analysis. The results showed that reality counseling effectively decreases self-motivation problems, while the results of the conversational analysis indicate that therapeutic changes occur in subject speech, want, and action, which oriented to reduce self-motivation problems. Even though there are some changes but they have not been planned specifically according to the needs of each subject. The results of this study clarify that reality therapy can be applied for helping high school students decreasing their self-motivation problems.