Adolescence was important time for the development of individuals confidence. Adolescence at
orphanage potential to has low self-confidence caused by negative influence of internal
dormitory, the relation between orphans. Orphanage adolescence lack of support in their physical
and mental change made them feeling anxious, confused, and un-confidence. From the problems,
the writer tried to reveal did grouped playing therapy could increase early adolescence at
Orphanage.
The research was done by Non-randomized pretest-posttest control group design method which
aimed to find the change of low confidence before treatment and post treatment. The subject was
early adolescence at Muhammadiyah Malang orphanage. Sampling was done by purposive
sampling method. By the method, there are 8 subjects as the chosen subject. Instrument used in
the research was confidence scale before treatment (pretest) and after treatment (posttest).
In analyzing the data, the writer used T-test statistic analysis. The result was significance value
0.02 which meant that there was significance different in confidence score before and after
grouped playing therapy. It could be found from sig < 0,05 value. So that could be concluded
that the effectiveness in increasing confidence at early-adolescence Muhammadiyah Malang
orphanage.