Neila Ramdhani, Wisnu Wiradhany

Abstract

Since its first appearance on early 2000’s at the U.S, the idea that a new generation of students called digital natives or net generation has entered the world has been widely discussed by parents and educators alike. It is said that this generation think, socialize, and act differently; and they will alter roles and regulation of work and educational institutes. Now, at the second decade of the 21st century, Indonesia has to ready herself to meet this new generation. In this paper, we compared information and technology (ICT) access, activities within ICT, investment on ICT, and attitude towards ICT between five hundred Indonesian in three different groups: those who born before the 1980s; those who born between 1980s to 1989’s, and those who born after the 1990s by ANOVA. We found that there were no difference on information and technology (ICT) access, activities, investment on ICT, and attitude towards ICT between the groups.

Keywords: ICT, Internet, Digital Natives

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Neila Ramdhani, Jeanita Deli Widjaja, Rahmawati

Abstract

Shy-socially isolated problem is still a dominating among teenagers. Some researchers found that cognitive distortion and social anxiety are predictors of this, besides the lack of opportunity to practice and involve in social relationship. This article addresses two small studies that examined two models of internet-supported brief cognitive behavior therapy (i-brief CBT) intervention, and self-management (i-SM). The former investigated the effectiveness of i-brief CBT in reducing social anxiety in teenagers. The later tested the i-SM in decreasing cognitive distortion. The main researched aimed to test the increase of Satisfaction with Life (SWL) level of the subjects participating in the Internet-Supported Brief CBT and Self-Management programs.

There were thirty-four high school students participating in the research, fifteen of whom were in the i-brief CBT and nineteen in the i-SM. Among those in the i-brief CBT, seven belonged to its experimental group while the i-SM had eight subjects placed in its experimental group. A quasi-experimental with a mixed design combined with a repeated measure applied in these researches. A mixed ANOVA that used to analyze the data showed that i-brief CBT as well as i-SM were significantly able to reduce social anxiety and cognitive distortion. In addition, both studies reported that these students were satisfied with their lives more than before joining the programs.

Keywords: Shy-socially isolated; social-anxiety; cognitive-distortion; CBT; self-managment, ;Internet; Satisfaction with life

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