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Abstract

This quasi-experimental research aimed to study the effect of training to develop attitude for the appropriate media consumption of secondary school students as they were compared with those who did not receive the training. The included training; the researchers offered self-constructed idea as a change of attitude. A total of eight events of activities were used in this study, the samples for this study were secondary students studying in the second semester of academic year 2011. There were 35 students in the experimental group and 35 students in the control group. After the completion of collecting data, Analysis of Covariance was employed to analyze it. The results of posttest found that students in the experimental group who had received the training had higher positive attitude in the media consumption after obtaining the treatment (p<.05). Then, the pretest score was chosen as covariance. The result found that the score of positive attitude towards the appropriate media consumption of the experimental group was higher than the control group (p<.01).