COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING APPLICATION TECHNIQUES TO REDUCE STUDENT BEHAVIOR IN ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine: (1) picture of a student's academic procrastinationbehavior before and after being given cognitive restructuring techniques. (2) the application ofCognitive Restructuring Techniques in reducing students' academic procrastination behavior.This study uses a pre-experimental design approach with the research model One-GroupPratest-Posttest Designs. To 14 research subjects who are students of SMPN 8 Makassar.Collecting data using questionnaires and observation. Analyzed using descriptive statistics,non-parametric, the Wilcoxon test. The results showed that: (1) the level of a student'sacademic procrastination behavior before the implementation of the Restructuring Kognititechnique at the high category as well as the level of a student's academic procrastinationbehavior after implementation of Cognitive restructuring seek techniques that are in the lowcategory. (2) the application of Cognitive Restructuring Techniques to reduce significantly thebehavior of a student's academic procrastination in SMPN 8 Makassar.