International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education
Vol 2, No 2 (2018): International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education

Cultivating spiritual resources for improving undergraduate student’s mental health

Irwan Nuryana Kurniawan (Universitas Islam Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Jun 2018

Abstract

The increasing number of students coming to the university’s guidance and counselling unit demonstrates the need for more serious and systemic efforts to deal with students’ mental health. Previous studies have shown that religion has significant contribution to the human mental health and psychological well-being. This study specifically examined the role of one of the spiritual resources that get emphasis in Islamic teachings that is “Tawakal toward Allah SubhanahuwaTa’ala” to the undergraduate students’ mental health. To test the research hypothesis that asserted there is a positive relationship between surrender to God and social-emotional health, current study uses correlational design. The study involved 57 undergraduate students of the statistic class at Psychology Department of Islamic University of Indonesia, Yogyakarta and Surrender to God Scale (Wong-McDonald & Gorsuch, 2000) and Social-Emotional Health Survey (Furlong, You, Shishim, & Dowdy, 2017) were administered to them. When social desirability on the relationship between surrender to God and social-emotional health was controlled, partial correlation r (56) = .510, p = .001was found.The result suggests that there was a significant and strongly positive association between surrender to God and students’ social-emotional health when controlling social desirability scores

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijrice

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

International Journal of Research in Counseling and Education (IJRiCE) ISSN: 2620-5769 (Electronic), ISSN: 2620-5750 (Print), is a peer-reviewed, counseling and education journal published by Universitas Negeri Padang (UNP) in collaboration with Indonesian Counselor Association (IKI). The aim of ...