THE EXERCISE GROUP TECHNIQUE ON ACADEMIC HARDINESS IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Academic stress related Hardiness (Benishek & Lopez, 2007).  Academic hardiness provide positive framework for students to react toward academic challenges. Academic hardiness is the individual state of resilience toward academic failure: Individual who have academic hardiness display a willingness to engage in academic challenges, commit to follow all academic activities, and have control over academic performance for maximum results (Kobasa, Maddi, & Kahn, 1982). The purpose of this study is to determine the increasing of academic hardiness from senior high school student in Indonesia. Group exercise technique provides an exercise program to increase the commitment, control and challenge of each student. A quasi-experimental non-equivalent control group with pre-test and post-test was used with a convenience sample of students. Results of statistical analysis by paired t-tests revealed that the exercise group technique intervention have a statistically significant effect on increasing academic hardiness scores. Further academic hardiness research in senior high school, utilizing the entire academic hardiness intervention, was recommended .