Relationship between Religiosity and Psychological Distress among College Students in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/uipsur-17.2018.35How to use a DOI?

Keywords

college student, emerging adult, psychological distress, religiosity

Abstract

College students are prone to psychological distress due to their own characteristics. Numerous experience happened around these population, such as academic pressure, love life problems, family issues and so on. College students are emerging adults that most likely doing things to explore many aspects in their life. Religiosity is one of many aspects from emerging adult’s life that is being explored while they are still in college. Previous study using college student found that college students show decreasing religious practice. Meanwhile it is known that the more religious a person the lesser his or her psychological distress. The objective of this study the relationship bertwen religiosity and psychological distress among college student. HSCL-25 and CRS-15 is used to measure psychological distress and religiosity in 1,959 college students from several cities of Indonesia. The finding is that 4 from 5 dimensions of religiosity have a significant relationship with psychological distress.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Intan Kusumadewi
AU  - Sugiarti Musabiq
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Relationship between Religiosity and Psychological Distress among College Students in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the Universitas Indonesia International Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 237
EP  - 242
SN  - 2352-5398
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