THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING ON THE EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL MATURITY ASPECTS OF IX GRADERS STUDENTS OF MTs 02 RENSING

Abstract

Guidance and counseling, as an integral part of the educational process, also contributes to achieving national goals. In its implementation, guidance and counseling is related to students' affective development. It aims to help students achieve optimal development for a happy life. The problem was How effective is guidance and counseling on the emotional and intellectual maturity aspects of ninth-grade students at MTs 02 Rensing in the 2024/2025 academic year? Based on the problem formulation stated above, the aim of this study is to determine the effective handling of guidance and counseling in schools to improve the fulfillment of developmental tasks in the emotional and intellectual maturity aspects of class IX students of MTs 02 Rensing. This type of research is classroom action research. This collaborative research is based on problems that arise in students' interpersonal empathy tendencies. The implementation of classroom actions yielded the following conclusions: 1) In emotional maturity, the self-protection level increased by 1 student (4.52%), while the conformism level increased by 2 students (9.87%). Furthermore, in self-awareness, the self-protection level increased by 13 students (51.23%) in cycle I and 13 students (85.59%) in cycle II, bringing the total to 39 students. 2) In intellectual maturity, the self-protection level increased by 1 student (5.31%), and the conformism level increased by 3 students (17.39%). Then, at the self-awareness level, in cycle I, the number increased to 14 students (56%), and in cycle II, it increased to 10 students (77.29%), for a total of 38 students