Peer Educator Method to Improve the Attitude of Junior High School Students in the Prevention of Watching Porn

Abstract

Addiction to pornography in adolescents has permanent damage to an important part of the brain called the PFC (pre frontal cortex), as a result of which the ability to make decisions is reduced, the brain only seeks pleasure without consequences. Information about the dangers of watching porn addiction by adolescents to their peers or what is often called peer educators as an alternative to preventive efforts to overcome the effects of watching porn. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the peer educator method in improving student attitudes about the prevention of watching porn. This type of research is a quasi experiment with a non-equivalent control group design with pre-test and post-test. Subjects in this study amounted to 76 students, divided into 2, namely the intervention group who received the peer educator method as many as 40 students at SMPN 4 Samarinda and the control group who received the module as independent reading material as many as 35 students at Junior hogh School 24 Samarinda who were selected purposively. Sampling with data analysis techniques using paired t-test and independent t-test. The decision to test the hypothesis of this study was based on a significance level of 5% or p value = 0.05. There was a statistically significant difference in attitude p <0.05 in the two groups of p = 0.003. The mean change in attitude in the treatment group was higher than the control group. The peer educator method is more effective than the module in increasing the prevention attitude of watching porn.