Effectiveness of Psychoeducation to Reduce Homesickness in Islamic Boarding School Students’

Abstract

This study aims to explore the picture of homesickness in the first-year student of Islamic Boarding School Ummul Mukminin. The study was conducted using two approaches namely survey and quasi-experiment. Participants are new students aged 13-15 years old. Participants were divided into 2 (two) stages. The first stage is a stage of need analysis, in which researchers spread open questionnaires and are distributed to 300 students before intervention in the form of psychoeducation. In the second stage, the quasi-experimental procedure was carried out with a scaled deployment as a pre-test stage for 186 students who had moderate to high levels of homesickness. Data analysis of the questionnaire and open scale was done by coding and categorizing. A paired sample t-test was conducted to compare differences in the level of homesickness in students during pre-and post-test. The results of data analysis show that the interventions in the form of psychoeducation or psychological education have been proven to reduce the homesickness felt by participants through developing skills and abilities in facing challenges or problems.

The Correlation between Sleep Quality and Level of Stress among Students in Islamic Boarding School Bogor

“…The relationship between sleep quality and participants with normal glucose levels, on the other hand, is largely unknown (8). A crosssectional study done at the Ummul Mukminin Islamic Boarding School by Sulastri et al, in 2020 showed that interventions in the form of psychoeducation were proven to be able to reduce the longing felt (9). While research by Machmud et al states that there is a relationship between sleep quality and headaches in students at Islamic boarding schools, based on these data and the results of the researchers' initial observations, life in Islamic boarding schools is accompanied by busy activities, academic requirement, and longing felt that make students feel stress (10).…”