Developing a Peace Guidance Book to Alleviate Student Aggressiveness

Abstract

This study aims to develop a peace guidebook as a medium for school counselors in reducing student aggressiveness. The research employed research and development design proposed by Borg and Gall model, which includes identifying aggressive needs and problems, drafting a hypothetical product, and expert and user assessment of the product. The data analysis technique used descriptive analysis to describe the level of aggressiveness. In addition, this study uses Cohens Kappa's inter-rater reliability (IRR) coefficient to identify expert and user agreement on product feasibility. The results of the descriptive analysis show that aggressiveness needs more attention from school counselors, one of which is by implementing peace guidance. The developed guidebook received an assessment from two guidance and counseling experts who have a track record in developing guidance and counseling media. User ratings were obtained from two school counselors who already have educator certificates. Based on expert and user assessments, the peace guidance manual is categorized as suitable for use by school counselors to reduce student aggressiveness. The results of this study should be used as material and consideration for further research to empirically test the peace guidance guidebook's effectiveness in reducing student aggressiveness.

School counselors as agents of peace in the school: a systematic literature review

“…Through guidance and counseling services, counselors can play a role in creating true peace. Some works of literature refer to these services as peace guidance [21] and peace counseling [31]. The study's results using various literature state that peace guidance and peace counseling can utilize local wisdom to increase their effectiveness [25].…”

“…The first counselor service whose goal is to create peace is peace guidance. The results stated that peace guidance is a counselor strategy to reduce aggressiveness [21]. Peace guidance in study contains values such as humility, self-control, tolerance, forgiveness, focusing on self-strength, self-regulation, and behavioral regulation.…”

“…Counselors have a vital role as agents of peace, both in terms of guidance and counseling. Several studies have shown that counselors can implement guidance services to create student peace [10], [21], [22]. In addition, several studies have also shown that counselors can implement counseling services to build student peace [23], [24].…”

Development and validation of Indonesian peace of mind scale: The Rasch analysis

“…Violence is a form of the absence of peace in the individual [9]. The first study showed that guidance programs that raised the topic of peace could suppress students' aggressive impulses [51]. Other research shows that the guidance program can also raise the value of peace in Markesot figures.…”

Contributive Factors of Tolerance among Senior High School Students

“…In a peaceful and harmonious situation, students can advance their ideas, opinion, and image in a consistent means, so peace should be the individual priority (Parmar, 2014). Further, harmony is embodied through the reduction of aggressiveness in students' behavior and thinking (Saputra, Nurani, & Fauziah, 2021). Parmar (2014) explained that peacefulness facilitates students to place peace as one of their individual life visions.…”