The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavior Group Counseling with Cognitive Restructuring Techniques to Reduce Stress and Anxiety in Cyberbullying Victims at School

I Made Sonny Gunawan (Universitas Pendidikan Mandalika, Indonesia)
Ichwanul Mustakim (Universitas Pendidikan Mandalika, Indonesia)
I Made Gunawan (Universitas Pendidikan Mandalika, Indonesia)

Grief and trauma
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2025): Grief and Trauma

The purpose of this study was to confirm the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group counseling with cognitive restructuring techniques in reducing stress and anxiety caused by cyberbullying in students. This study was a true experiment with a two-factorial design. The subjects in this study were 20 students at Senior High School 3 Mataram, Indonesia. Data were collected using the Adaptive Personality Scale from the Acculturative Stress Scale (ASS) and the Social Anxiety Scale (SAS). Data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA statistics. The results of this study indicate that cognitive-behavioral group counseling with cognitive restructuring techniques is effective in reducing stress and anxiety. Furthermore, the results showed that cognitive-behavioral group counseling with restructuring techniques was more effective in reducing anxiety than stress.