The Application of a Metaphor Technique by Healing Stories to Reduce Student Anxiety

DOI

10.2991/icei-19.2019.90How to use a DOI?

Keywords

communication apprehension; metaphor; healing stories

Abstract

The background of this research is the discomfort feeling of some students during their communication with others since they have problems with their self confidence. This problem must be solved because it will make the students have difficulty in comunication in the future. Some techniques can be utilized for helping these studenta, one of them is a metaphor tehcnique. This paper presents the effectiveness of applying the metaphor technique in the form of healing stories to decrease the communication problems of students in the setting of counseling group design. One group pre-test and post-test design are used. Since the data is normally distributed, the technique for data analysis used in this research is a paired sample t test. Results of analysis show that there is a difference of communication apprehension level before and after the metaphor technique in the form of healing stories hasbeen applied. On the other words, the application of metaphor technique in the form of healing stories can decrease the level of communication apprehension of the students.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Titin Indah Pratiwi
AU  - Nita Jemiparera
PY  - 2019/12
DA  - 2019/12
TI  - The Application of a Metaphor Technique by Healing Stories to Reduce Student Anxiety
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Education Innovation (ICEI 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 386
SN  - 2352-5398
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