PENGARUH PEER GROUP DISSCUSION TERHADAP PENINGKATAN PENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAP REMAJA TENTANG PENCEGAHAN PERILAKU SEKS BEBAS PADA SISWA KELAS VIII SMP PANCA JAYA SURABAYA

Adolescence is a stage of transition from children to adulthood. Lack of knowledge about free sex prevention can increase free sex behavior in the future among adolescence. This study was aimed to analyze the effect of peer group discussion to improve adolescent’s knowledge and attitude about free sex prevention on 8th grade student’s at SMP Panca Jaya Surabaya. This study was used quasy experimental design. Population were all of adolescence 8th grade and through multistage random method derived A 8th grade and D 8th grade as affordable population. 50 respondent involved, taken according to purposive sampling, devided into 27 respondent on experiment group and 23 respondent on control group. The independent variable of this research was peer group discussion and dependent variable were knowledge and attitude. Data were collected by questionnaires and analyze using Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test and Mann Whitney U Test with significant level α=