Model Guidance and Counseling by Using Role Playing Technique to Improve Students’ Leadership Character

This research is grounded by the phenomenon of the lack of respect, self-appreciation, carefulness, and leadership on other people, amongst young generation, especially teenagers and young adults. This research aims to obtain a guidance and counseling program by using role playing technique to improve the leadership character of the students of Islamic Elementary School Study Program in STAI Siliwangi Bandung. This research uses the quantitative method with one-group pretest-posttest design pre-experiment approach. The result of the research shows: (1) The character profile of the Islamic Elementary School Study Program students is on the high category; and (2) the guidance and counseling program by using the role-playing technique is quite effective in improving the students’ leadership character. This research is highly recommended to: (1) the chairman of STAI Siliwangi Bandung, so this research will be fully facilitated by the chairman of STAI Siliwangi Bandung; (2) guidance and counseling lecturers so they can apply this role playing technique with few suitable adjustments for the students; and (3) the researcher will keep on applying this guidance and counseling role playing technique program to varied subjects, such as in other departments or other universities.