Abstract
Academic stress can have a negative effect on a student's cognitive, emotional and behavioural well-being. Furthermore, academic stress could also cause a decline in student’s academic performance. Therefore, it is necessary for the student to be able to cope and relieve stress. Religious coping strategies are one of the effective ways in overcoming academic stress. This study was aimed to explore and understand students' experiences of religious coping methods when facing academic stress. A qualitative method by using interview was used. A total of five respondents from the public universities were involved. The data from interviews were analysed by using thematic analysis from five respondents. This study discovered three specific religious coping behaviour that was employed to cope with academic stress; 1) worship in the heart, 2) worship verbally and, 3) worship by action. It has also identified three themes on the impact of religious coping on 1) cognitive, 2) emotional and 3) behaviour. From this study, it can be concluded that specific religious coping behavior which had been used by the students is helpful for them in coping with academic stress. The knowledge and awareness of the internal and external stressors also can help the students to identify the best solution and coping mechanism to manage the stress. These coping behaviours also help the students to have a better understanding of how religious coping can affect students in terms of cognitive, emotion and behavior.
Highlights
The fast-changing global life has brought considerable stress on human life
This research sought to develop a substantive description from the data gathered in achieving the objectives of identifying specific religious coping behaviors that had been used by students to cope with academic stress and to understand the impact of religious coping in handling academic stress among students
For the operational of this research, the researchers had focus on the religious practices which is the ritualistic dimension of the participants. (Plante, Saucedo, & Rice, 2001) had performed a study and found three religious coping styles which are: “self-directing” in which the individuals utilize personal resources without the help of God to solve a problem
Summary
The fast-changing global life has brought considerable stress on human life. Stress is best described as a situation where environmental demands exceed the capacity for effective response by the individual and can potentially have physical and psychological consequences (Bamuhair et al, 2015). The source of stress come from their work responsibility, financial stability, family problems and others. For university students, the source of stress comes in terms of academic stress, workload, assignments, research, friends, examination, and others. The survey on students’ issues found that 50% of 120,420 students faced 11 personal problems that included exam stress, 29% faced family problems, 11% faced issues with friends, and 10% faced problems with their teachers. Regardless of one’s cultural and diversity factors, individuals must find ways to adapt manage and resolve their source of distress, the ways in which one does so may differ from everyone
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