Bagaimana Remaja Menjadi Peer-Counselor di Masa Pandemi?
Abstract
Abstract: To optimally carry out their developmental tasks during the Covid-19 Pandemic, which affects psychosocial and mental health, teenagers require mentoring. One of those accompaniments may come from their peers. This study observes the way teenagers being peer-counselors during the Covid-19 pandemic. This quantitative research uses a descriptive survey design. Meanwhile, its populations were all participants of peer counseling training webinars conducted by the Centre of Guidance and Counselling Service of Lambung Mangkurat University. The 126 samples were selected using a random sampling technique live in South Borneo. The results convey that 32 percent, 78 percent, and 58 percent of teenagers actively being peer-counselors at the age of 16 years, at the high school age, and when the pandemic started, respectively. A 40 percent of teenagers explain that they choose to be peer counselors because they like to help their friends, 53 percent of them feel to have a superior personality that supports them to be peer counselors, while 27 percent of them contemplate on things they can suggest to help their friends as peer counselors. Additionally, 54 percent of teenagers wish to attain peer counselors' skills that can command the counselees' thoughts. Thus, teenagers have given relatively significant contributions as peer counselors during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Abstrak: Guna melaksanakan tugas perkembangan dengan optimal selama pandemi covid-19 yang berdampak pada kesehatan mental dan kondisi psikososial, remaja perlu pendampingan. Salah satunya adalah pendampingan dari teman sebaya. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendapatkan gambaran mengenai bagaimana remaja menjadi konselor sebaya di masa pandemic covid-19. Penelitian kuantitatif ini menggunakan desain survei-deskriptif. Populasi penelitian merupakan seluruh peserta webinar pelatihan konseling teman sebaya yang diadakan oleh Pusat Layanan Bimbingan dan Konseling (PLBK) Universitas Lambung Mangkurat. Teknik penarikan sampel menggunakan teknik total random sampling yaitu sebanyak 126 sampel yang berdomisili di Kalimantan Selatan. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa 32 persen remaja aktif menjadi konselor sebaya pada usia 16 tahun, 78 persen mulai SMA/SMK, 58 persen mulai pada masa pandemi. Empat puluh persen remaja beralasan menjadi konselor sebaya karena merasa senang dapat membantu temannya, 53 persen merasa memiliki kepribadian yang unggul sebagai konselor sebaya karena terdorong untuk membantu, 27 persen memiliki pikiran apakah yang bisa saya sarankan kepada teman saya disaat menjadi konselor sebaya dan 54 persen ingin mendapatkan keterampilan sebagai konselor sebaya yang mampu mengendalikan pikiran konseli. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa remaja sudah berperan cukup baik menjadi konselor sebaya di masa pandemik covid-19.
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