Increasing Adolescents’ Religiosity and Resilience through Islamic Spiritual Mindfulness

Abstract

Introduction: Adolescence is a transitional period between childhood and adulthood, making it prone to various deviant behaviors due to dramatic bio-psychosocial and spiritual maturity changes. Islamic spiritual mindfulness is an effort to build self-awareness that drives an individual to do good deeds. This study aimed to determine the effects of Islamic spiritual mindfulness on increasing religiosity and resilience among Indonesian adolescents. M ethods: This study used a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental research design with a control group. The samples were 174 students in Vocational High School. They were randomly assigned to the intervention group (n=87) that received the Islamic spiritual mindfulness treatment and the control group (n=87) that did not receive such treatment. Data were collected using the Adolescent Resilience Scale (ARS) and analyzed using paired and unpaired t-tests. Results: The results showed that after the intervention, the mean values of religiosity and resilience in the intervention group were 50.30±6.59 with a p-value = 0.0001 and 3.73±0.35 with a p-value = 0.0001, respectively. In the control group, the mean values of religiosity and resilience were 46.36±8.44 with a p-value = 0.070, and 3.52±0.57 with a p-value = 0.220, respectively. Further analysis showed that the mean difference in student religiosity was 3.94 and p-value = 0.001, with an effect size of 0.56. Meanwhile, the mean difference in student resilience was 0.21 and the p-value = 0.003, with an effect size of 0.46. Conclusion: Islamic spiritual mindfulness is highly effective in increasing religiosity and resilience in adolescents. Islamic spiritual mindfulness is recommended to be implemented to improve mental health in adolescents.