PELATIHAN ASERTIF “SPEAK YOUR MIND” UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KEMAMPUAN PENYESUAIAN SOSIAL PADA MAHASISWA RANTAU DI UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

As settled foreign students, students need social adjustment skills in order to adapt to new issues encountered and avoid a lowering of academic achievement, culture shock, stress to depression. Assertive training "Speak Your Mind" presented in this research as a form of treatment for students with low social adjustment ability. This research aimed to determine the extent of training provided to improve social adjustment in students. The research method used quasi-experiment with model pre-test and post-test control group design. This research was conducted on 14 settled foreign students at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang where the determination of the group of experiments grouped through random assignment. The findings of this research indicate an increase in social adjustment scores in the experimental group the result showed from the Wilcoxon test with a p-value of 0.018 (p