UPAYA MENINGKATKAN ADVERSITY QUOTIENT MELALUI PELAKSANAAN BIMBINGAN KLASIKAL (Penelitian Pada Mahasiswa Semester III Program Studi Bimbingan Dan Konseling FKIP UNISRI TAHUN 2014/2015)

Abstract

The background of the research is the phenomenon of people facing troubles and challenge
in life which is responded with hopelessness. They are considered to have low adversity quotient.
These symptoms were found during counseling among students of Guidence and Counceling of
Slamet Riyadi University 2015. This phenomenon was recorded by their scores which were only
E and D. It was found that the everage number is two for each class group. The improvement of
adversity quotient was conducted through basic service counceling program namely classical
program. This program drives councelors to make a direct contact with the students in their
classrooms through discussion and ideas sharing. It is hoped that the students’ adversity
quotients improve.
The topic given during the classical counceling were those related to the goal of the
counceling in the adversity quotient research. They are destructive thinking, adversity quotient,
education film entitled “Succesful diffables”, “INSIGHT 12 SPSS”
The research applied class room action research with two cycles. The steps cover 1)
planning, 2) action, 3) observation, 4) reflection. This research also applied adversity response
profile for data collecting.
The result shows that the students’ adversity quotient improved after cycle 1. It is indicated
by the decrease of the number for those with the lowest score 31,25% became only 6,25%, and
for those with medium score 9,375 increased into 31,25%, and those with highest score 9,375%.
In cycle 2 the number increased significantly signed by the disapearance of the lowest and low
cgroup.
Based on the research, it is suggested; 1) to increase the adversity quotient for students,
classical counceling with speech and film is suggested, 2) to choose interesting film to be used
during the counceling to increase the adversity quotient.
Keywords: adversity quotient, classical counceling