Development of program for promoting executive functions of the brain by neuro-linguistic programming for secondary school students with internet addiction
Abstract:
This research aimed to develop and to test the effectiveness of the enhancement of
executive functions of the brain by neuro-linguistic program (NLPEFs) for secondary school
students with internet addiction. The sample consisted of 60 grade 9 secondary students at
MabtaputpanpittayakarnSchool, Rayong province. They had a score of internet addiction at
≥ 51 points. They were randomly assigned into two groups: an experimental and a control group
which consisted of 30 persons in each group by matching the executive functions score from
Wisconsin card sorting (WCST-64). The research instruments were; 1) The WCST-64,
2) Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Self-Report (BRIEF-SR) Thai-version,
3) Internet Addiction Test, 4) The NLPEFs which was developed by the researcher. The
experiment lasted for 6 sessions, each session lasted for 50 minutes, for a total of two weeks. The
assessments were done in 3 phases: pretest, posttest, and follow-up phases. The data was analyzed
by a repeated-measures analysis of variance and paired-different test by Bonferroni method.
The results were that; 1) the interaction between the experimental methodology and the
duration of the experiment was found statistically significant at .05 level. 2) The experimental
group had executive functions higher than those in the control group in the posttest and follow-up
with statistically significant at .05 level. 3) The experimental group had executive functions in the
posttest and follow-up higher than the pretest with statistically significant at .05 level. It was
concluded that the NLPEFs with NLP is effective in enhancing executive functions among
secondary school students with internet addiction.