The Working Framework of Religious Conseling Services to Strengthen Undergraduate Gifted Students Mental: as a Powerful Alternative Strategy for Achieveng Academic Success

Year 2019, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 273 - 298, 27.06.2019

Yusmansyah Yusmansyah Diah Utaminingsih , Muswardi Rosra Redi Eka Ardiyanto Citra Abriani Maharani Novinta Nurulsari

https://doi.org/10.17478/jegys.521433

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Students'
mental in higher education plays a very important role in academic success,
especially for gifted student. Many findings indicate that there were not a few
gifted students who had troubles. This research was conducted to produce a
counseling service strategy by combining religious aspects with aspects that
are always used in human daily life in displaying certain behaviors. The
strategy developed was applied to the final year gifted students who had
non-technical problems related to student motivation and emotions. Treatment
was done to help strengthen the mental of gifted students in achieving academic
success in the form of completing studies in a timely manner. Student’s mental
strength was observed from several indicators which were part of the content of
the strategy developed. The development of mental strength of students after
being given treatment was reviewed using the results of the questionnaire
interpretation that had been filled by students, which were then analyzed
qualitatively. The results showed that religious counseling services with
strategies developed could help gifted students to have aspects of behavior
that were very important to themselves, so that there were no obstacles that
arise in themselves to achieve academic success through the completion of
timely studies with satisfactory results.

Keywords

Gifted student, religius counseling, mental, counseling strategy, academic success

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