Reciting Al Fatihah to Reduce Stress Levels Adolescence (original) (raw)

2022, Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Innovation on Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences (ICOSI-HESS 2022)

Adolescence is a transitional period, they tend to experience emotional improvement and susceptibility to stress. The level of stress experienced by adolescent can be reduced by spiritual activities that are reciting surah Al Fatihah, which can motivate themselves. By so doing, they no longer feel hopeless in living life. This study aims to identify the effect of Surah Al Fatihah on adolescence stress levels. This type of research is a quasi-experiment. The samples of this study were 98 respondents. They were divided into 48 respondents in the intervention group, and the rest 48 respondents in the control group taken using a purposive sampling technique. Data collection was conducted by giving the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 42 (DASS 42) questionnaire. The results showed that the characteristic of stress levels, both of group dominated moderate stress category and p value was 0.000 (p < 0.05) which indicated that there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test. The respondents in the intervention group have mean difference of 6 points, this value was revealed by score pre-test 17.65 and post-test 11.59. While, the control group had a mean difference of 4.19 points, with score pre-test 18.27 and post-test 14.08. It means that in the intervention group (mean value 42.98) can reduce the respondents' stress level better than those in the control group (mean value 56.02). The conclusion, there was a significant effect on reciting surah Al Fatihah on the reduction of adolescence's stress levels.

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