Students who read and talked about book characters said they put things off less
Who it’s about: Children, Students
- No comparison
After four group talks about book characters, students said they put off schoolwork less.
Very small study of one group of 7 grade 8 students in Indonesia · no comparison group · they rated themselves · ⚠ summary claims more than the results show
The study
Who took part
7 grade 8 students (4 boys and 3 girls) at an Islamic junior high school in Surakarta, Indonesia. They were hand-picked, but the paper doesn't say how.
What they did
The students met as a group with a counsellor four times to talk about books. The idea is that students see themselves in a book character with a similar problem and learn ways to cope. The paper doesn't name the books or say what happened in each session.
What happened
At the end, the students rated themselves as putting off schoolwork less than at the start. There was no other group to compare with and no later check. The paper calls the method effective, but its results alone can't show that.
Source
INTERVENSI TEKNIK BIBLIOTERAPI DALAM MENGURANGI PROKRASTINASI AKADEMIK (2020)
DOI: 10.22515/ajpc.v1i2.3127 (opens in a new tab)Tools in this study
Action
Read about someone facing the same problemRead or watch a story whose character struggles with the same problem and learn from how they cope.
