Religiosity, religious coping and distress among muslim undergraduate students in Uitm Shah Alam

• Main Author: Mohd Hazreen Abdul Rashid Dr (Author)
• Format: Thesis Book
• Language: English
• Published: Sungai Buloh, Selangor Universiti Teknologi MARA. Faculty of Medicine 2019
• Subjects: Psychology, Adolescent; Depression > physiology
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• Item Description: UiTM Digitized
• Physical Description: xiii, 71 pages illustrations, charts (some colour) 30 cm 1 computer optical disc (4 ¾ in.)
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• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (page 50-58)

Background: Researchers have shown that there is a relatively high prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress among university students compared to the general population due to their vulnerability towards the high demands of academic life and social changes. To minimize and mitigate the impact of the stressful events and environment, a person would use specific behavioural and cognitive adaptative methods called coping strategies or mechanism. Religiosity is a multi-dimensional sociological terms that describe an individual's belief, religious attitudes and practices, religious identity, affiliation and participation in religious activities, Religious coping is the term used to describe coping mechanisms derived from a person's religion or spirituality. Studies have shown that both negative and positive types of religious coping have significant association with outcomes like depression, anxiety and stress, Objective: The objective of the study is to determine the prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress among university students and examine the factors associated with them which include socio-demographic factors, the level of religiosity and the types of religious coping used. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional study conducted among four hundred and sixty seven students in Universiti Teknologi Mara (UITM) Shah Alam. The symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress were measured using the Malay version of Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21). Religiosity and types of religious coping were each measured using the Hatta Islamic Religiosity Scale (HIRS96) and Brief Religious Coping Scale (Brief RCOPE) respectively. All questionnaires used had been translated into the Malay language version and validated. Results: 184 (39.7%) subjects showed the symptoms of depression with the severity ranging from mild to extremely severe. For the symptoms of stress and anxiety, the numbers of students were 270 (58.4%) and 157 (33.9% ) respectively. The majority of subjects (89.6%) used positive religious coping while only 12.5% used negative religious coping. The religiosity score on HIRS 96 showed a mean of 60.58 (SD 11.45), Using multiple logistic regression, significant associations were found between depression with age factor (p<0.05, OR 1.28) and the use of both positive (p<0.05, OR 0.33) and negative religious coping (p<0.05, OR 2.84). The symptoms of anxiety showed significant association with negative religious coping (p<0.05, OR 2.34), the female gender (p<0.05, OR 1.60) and also year of study (p<0.05, OR 1.55). The symptoms of stress were significantly associated with the female gender too (p<0.05, OR 2.25) and religiosity (p<0.05, OR 0.97). Conclusion: The present study demonstrated high prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress among the students of UiTM Shah Alam. Consistent significant associations were found between negative religious coping with both anxiety and depressive symptoms. Consistent with the earlier studies done among Muslim samples, the positive religious coping is not significantly associated with better psychological outcomes although only small effect was observed towards the depressive symptoms. Clinicians are recommended to exercise more empathy to allow a higher degree of openness when discussing negative reframing of religious concepts with a patient
Latar Belakang: Banyak kajian telah menunjukkan bahawa kemurungan, kebimbangan dan stress adalah lebih tinggi di kalangan pelajar universiti berbanding populasi umum akibat tekanan akademik. Amalan atau kaedah berfikir tertentu dapat digunakan sebagai langkah mengurangkan tekanan dari persekitaran, Menerusi kepercayaan agama, kekuatan kepercayaan, sikap terhadap agama, penyertaan dalam aktiviti keagamaan dan identiti seseorang itu dapat menentukan berapa kuat seseorang itu beragama.. Cara mengatasi stress yang boleh diambil dari agama dan boleh dikategorikan kepada positif dan negatif. Terdapat banyak kajian yang menunjukkan terdapat kaitan yang kukuh di antara kekuatan beragama dan cara mengatasi stress berdasarkan agama dengan kemurungan, kebimbangan dan stress. Objektif: Objektif utama kajian adalah untuk menentukan pecahan kemurungan, kebimbangan dan stress di kalangan pelajar universiti serta kaitannya dengan factor demografik, kekuatan beragama dan kemahiran mengatasi stress berdasarkan agama. Metodologi: Ini adalah suatu kajian yang bersifat keratan rentas yang dijalankan di kalangan empat ratus enam puluh tujuh pelajar di Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) di kampus utama Shah Alam. Simpto kebimbangan, kemurungan dan stress diukur menggunakan skala Depression, Anxiety and Scale Stress, (DASS-21). Kekuatan agama dan jenis langkah mengatasi stress secarn agama masing-masing diukur dengan Hatta Islamic Religiosity Index (HIRS96) dan Brief Religious Coping Scale (Brief RCOPE). Keputusan: 184 (39.7%) peserta menunjukkan simptom-simptom kemurungan. manakala simptom-simptom kebimbangan dan stress masing-masing dikenalpasti di kalangan 270 (58.4%) dan 157 (33.9%) peserta. Analisis multivariat menunjukkan terdapat kaitan yang kukuh di antara kemurungan dengan faktor-faktor seperti umur (p<0.05, OR 1.28), dan penggunaan kemahiran mengatasi stress menggunakan agama yang positif (p<0.05, OR 0.33) dan negatif (p<0.05, OR 2.84). Simptom kebimbangan pula mempunyai kaitan yang kukuh dengan faktor jantina perempuan (p<0.05, OR 1.60), tahun pengajian (p<0.05, OR 1.55) dan pengggunaan kemahiran mengatasi stress secara agama yang bersifat negatif (p<0.05, OR 2.34). Faktor jantina perempuan (p<0.05, OR 2.25) dan kekuatan beragama (p<0.05, OR 0.97) juga turut didapati mempengaruhi simptom stress. Kesimpulan: Hasil kajian ini telah menunjukkan bahawa terdapat pecahan kemurungan, kebimbangan dan stress yang tinggi di kalangan pelajar di Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam. Kaitan yang kuat turut ditemui di antara penggunaan negatif kemahiran mengatasi stress secara beragama dengan kemurungan dan kebimbangan. Sikap yang lebih terbuka adalah digalakkan untuk membincangkan aspek negatif beragama di kalangan pesakit. Aspek positif cara mengatasi stress menggunakan agama tidak mempunyai perkaitan yang kukuh untuk mengurangkan kebimbangan atau stress, la juga hanya memberi kesan yang minima terhadap kemurungan