Religious Coping and Stres in Academic Context

Abstract

This research was aspired from observing Arabic language students in UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung that used religious coping to relieve their stress. Most students said that religious coping that they used reduce their stress. However, few students claimed that coping strategy that they used was not able to reduce the stress that they encounter. This study was aimed at finding out if there is a correlation between religious coping and stress in Arabic education program UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. This study was a correlational study. Out of the 366 students of the population, the research took as many as 25% or 93 students as the research sample. The instrument in this study was religious coping scale adapted from Aflakseir and Coleman and stress scale adapted from Sarafino. The scales were using Likert scale for the measurement. And for the analysis, the data were computed using person’s r. The pedagogical implications from this study are that the Arabic education students in UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung can choose an appropriate coping strategy that they can use to reduce their stress. So as to reduce the stress that they might have from different kinds of situations.