Relationship between Religiosity and Psychological Distress among College Students in Indonesia

Abstract

College students are prone to psychological distress due to their own characteristics. Numerous experiences happened around these populations, such as academic pressure, love life problems, family issues and so on. College students are emerging adults that most likely doing things to explore many aspects in their life. Religiosity is one of many aspects from emerging adult"s life that is being explored while they are still in college. Previous study using college student found that college students show decreasing religious practice. Meanwhile it is known that the more religious a person the lesser his or her psychological distress. The objective of this study is to identify the relationship between religiosity and psychological distress among college students. HSCL-25 and CRS-15 is used to measure psychological distress and religiosity in 1,959 college students from several cities of Indonesia. The finding is that 4 from 5 dimensions of religiosity have a significant relationship with psychological distress.

Kesehatan mental mahasiswa ditinjau dari two continua model: Pengujian multiple analysis of variance

“…Versi bahasa Indonesia dari HSCL-25 telah diadaptasi bahasa dan budaya oleh Turnip & Hauff (2007). Skala ini telah banyak digunakan pada sampel mahasiswa dan menunjukkan internal konsistensi yang baik untuk skala depresi dan kecemasan (Kusumadewi & Musabiq, 2018). Pada penelitian ini, instrumen ini menghasilkan internal konsistensi Alpha Cronbach sebesar 0,890 untuk skala depresi, dan untuk skala kecemasan sebesar 0,910.…”

“…Penelitian ini masih terbatas pada mengidentifikasi prevalensi indikator sehat mental dan indikator distress psikologis dan belum mengkaitkan dengan variabel lain yang bersifat protektif maupun resiko, misalnya pengalaman masa kecil yang sulit dan resiliensi sebagai faktor yang berperan terhadap depresi (Kaloeti dkk., 2019) atau religiusitas (Kusumadewi & Musabiq, 2018). Berbagai studi lain juga menemukan hubungan yang erat antara status kesehatan mental dengan berbagai variabel, misalnya psychological capital (Selvaraj & Bhat, 2018), engagement dan prestasi akademik Persona: Jurnal Psikologi Indonesia ISSN.…”