Hubungan Persepsi Klien tentang Konseling dan Ketrampilan Komunikasi Konselor dalam Konseling dengan Pengungkapan Diri Klien

Herman Nirwana (IKIP Padang)

Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan
Vol. 5 No. 1 (1998)

The main purpose of this study was to examine the correlation between clients' perception of counseling, counselors' communication skills in counseling and clients' self-disclosure, as well as the differences of clients' self-disclosure in counseling in terms of their sexes. Subjects consisted of four counselors and eight clients. The data were collected by questionnaires and scoring-criteria and analysed by Spearman rank order correlation and Mann-Whitney U test. The findings showed that there was no significant correlation between clients' perception of counseling and self-disclosure in counseling, but there was a positive correlation between counselors' communication skill and clients' self-disclosure. There was no significant difference between clients' self-disclosure in counseling for female and male clients, but there was a difference in clients' self-disclosure toward female and male counselors. Female and male clients were more disclosed toward female-counselors.