Increasing Assertiveness Of Celibacy Among Claretian Aspiran Through Cognitive Restructuring

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of cognitive restructuring in increasing the celibate assertive behavior of Claretian Aspirants. This type of research uses a quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design with a sample size of six Claretian candidates taken using non-random sampling techniques. This research sample was between 19 and 20 years old and had low celibate assertive behavior among their peers. This research data was collected using the assertive celibacy behavior scale and analyzed using the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test. The results of this study found a p-value (Asymp. Sig 2 tailed) of 0.028 in the high category compared to the significance value (P= 0.05). This means there is a difference in the pretest and posttest scores for the celibate behavior of Claretian Aspirants, so it can be concluded that cognitive restructuring effectively increases the celibate behavior of Claretian Aspirants. The increase in celibate assertive behavior of Claretian Aspirants is characterized by courage, firmness, honesty, sincerity, and independence in expressing their personal opinions. Cognitive restructuring is significant in consecrated life formation institutions to increase Aspirants' celibate assertive behavior.