Abstrak
The phenomenon of elementary school-age children not having self-confidence due to bullying behavior that is carried out around their environment is an urgent problem that needs to be resolved. The focus of this research is to increase the self-confidence of elementary school-age children through group counseling and to find out the effect of group counseling on the self-confidence of victims of bullying in elementary school-age children. This research is a pre-experiment with the research design of One Group Pretest and Posttest. The study population was elementary school students in Pandang district with a total sampling of 8 students who were identified as having low self-confidence. Questionnaire data collection instrument Confidence questionnaire and group counseling learning observation sheets. The results of the study concluded that the table Z value was -2.524 using the Z test (Wilcoxon) while the Wilcoxon sig p value was 0.012 α (α = 0.05). This concludes that there is a significant effect of the application of group counseling on increasing students' self-confidence. The findings of this study are the educational authorities intervene and introduce anti-bullying interventions. Meanwhile, while writing this research, the writer found loopholes such as teacher's ignorance about teasing, and family environment that need to be investigated in depth.