Reducing stress among new boarding school students: The impact of Al-Qur'an reading intensity analyzed through expert systems and PHP
Abstract
This study investigates the impact of Al-Qur'an reading intensity on stress reduction among new students at Insan Scholar Boarding School, utilizing an expert system and PHP methods. Employing an experimental design and quantitative data analysis, this study compares stress levels before and after the implementation of an intensive Quran reading intervention. The data collection instrument uses a psychological scale, namely the DASS stress scale (Depression Anxiety own scale) adapted from the character lovibond & lovibond. Results indicate a significant decrease in stress levels among participants engaged in Quran reading activities compared to those who did not participate. These findings underline the importance of spiritual practices in stress management and suggest integrating Quran reading activities into mental health programs in educational environments. The study offers new insights into the application of spiritual methods alongside information technology to support students' psychological well-being, contributing significantly to stress management practices in similar educational settings. The implications of this research emphasize the need to recognize and integrate the spiritual dimension as a crucial component in stress reduction programs, as well as the potential for information technology applications to facilitate spiritual activities.
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Chapman, R., & Hesketh, L. .(2001). Language, cognition, and short-term memory in individuals with Down syndrome. Down syndrome research and practice, 7.1, 1–7.
DeCaro, R., Peelle, J. E., Grossman, M., & Wingfield, A. (2016). The two sides of sensory–cognitive interactions: Effects of age, hearing acuity, and working memory span on sentence comprehension. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 236.
Derakhshan, A. & Khatir, E. (2015). The effect of using games on English vocabulary learning. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2.3, 39-47
Deschênes, S. S., Burns, R. J., & Schmitz, N. (2015). Associations between diabetes, major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder comorbidity, and disability: Findings from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey—Mental Health (CCHS-MH). Journal of psychosomatic research, 78(2), 137-142.
Dixon, R. A., Hultsch, D. F., & Hertzog, C.(1988). Metamemory in adulthood. MIA questionnaire. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 24.4, 671-688.
Drigas, A., Mitsea, E., & Skianis, C. (2022). Metamemory: Metacognitive Strategies for Improved Memory Operations and the Role of VR and Mobiles. Behavioral Sciences, 12.11, 450.
Education Ministry (2021). 374 districts in India ‘educationally backward’ Retrieved from: https://www.indiatvnews.com/education/news-list-of-educationally-backwarddistricts-in-india-education-ministry-up-bihar-mprajasthan-72598
Elliott, M., & Parente, F. (2014). Efficacy of memory rehabilitation activities: A meta-analysis of TBI and stroke cognitive rehabilitation literature. Brain Injury, 28.12, 1610-1616.
Gilmore, N., Meier, E. L., Johnson, J. P., & Kiran, S. .(2019). Nonlinguistic cognitive factors predict treatment-induced recovery in chronic poststroke aphasia. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 100.7, 1251–1258.
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Henckens, M. J., Hermans, E. J., Pu, Z., Joëls, M., & Fernández, G. (2009). Stressed memories: how acute stress affects memory formation in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(32), 10111-10119.
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Kano, M., & Fukudo, S. (2013). The alexithymic brain: the neural pathways linking alexithymia to physical disorders. BioPsychoSocial medicine, 7, 1-9.
Khetrapal. A, (2022), Psychosomatic Disorders News Medical Retrieved from https://www.news-medical.net/health/Psychosomatic-Disorders.aspx
Lacourt, T. E., Houtveen, J. H., van Zanten, J. J. V., Bosch, J. A., Drayson, M. T., & van Doornen, L. J. (2013). Negative affectivity predicts increased pain sensitivity during low-grade inflammation in healthy women. Immune-to-brain communication in functional somatic symptoms, 115.
Lane, R. D., Waldstein, S. R., Chesney, M. A., Jennings, J. R., Lovallo, W. R., Kozel, P. J., ... & Cameron, O. G. (2009). The rebirth of neuroscience in psychosomatic medicine, Part I: historical context, methods, and relevant basic science. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71.2, 117-134.
Lane, R. D., Waldstein, S. R., Critchley, H. D., Derbyshire, S. W., Drossman, D. A., Wager, T. D., ... & Cameron, O. G. (2009). The rebirth of neuroscience in psychosomatic medicine, part II: clinical applications and implications for research. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71.2, 135–151.
MacLean, P. D. (1949). Psychosomatic disease and the" visceral brain": Recent developments bearing on the Papez theory of emotion. Psychosomatic Medicine, 11.6, 338–353.
McDonough, I. M., McDougall, G. J., LaRocca, M., Dalmida, S. G., & Arheart, K. L. (2020). Refining the metamemory in adulthood questionnaire: a 20-item version of change and capacity designed for research and clinical settings. Ageing & mental health, 24.7, 1054–1063.
McDougall, G. J., McDonough, I. M., & LaRocca, M. (2019). Memory training for adults with probable mild cognitive impairment: a pilot study. Ageing & mental health, 23.10, 1433–1441.
McDougall, G. J., McDonough, I., & Kraemer, K. (2019). Effect of Stigma on Outcomes of a Memory Training Intervention. Innovation in Aging, 3. Suppl 1, S658-S658.
Metternich, B., Schmidtke, K., & Hüll, M. (2009). How are memory complaints in functional memory disorder related to measures of effect, metamemory and cognition? Journal of psychosomatic research, 66.5, 435-444.
Pannu, J. K., & Kaszniak, A. W. (2005) Metamemory experiments in neurological populations: A review. Neuropsychology Review, 15, 105-130.
Ponds, R. W., & Jolles, J. (1996). Memory complaints in elderly people: The role of memory abilities, metamemory, depression, and personality. Educational Gerontology: An International Quarterly, 22.4, 341-357.
Ponds, R. W., & Jolles, J. (1996). The abridged Dutch Metamemory in Adulthood. MIA Questionnaire: Structure and effects of age, sex, and education. Psychology and ageing, 11.2, 324.
Pressley, M., Borkowski, J. G., & O'Sullivan, J. T. (1984). Memory strategy instruction is made of this: Metamemory and durable strategy use. Educational Psychologist, 19.2, 94–107.
Ruesch, J. .1948. The infantile personality: the core problem of psychosomatic medicine. Psychosomatic Medicine, 10.3, 134–144.
Sastoque, L. G., Bouazzaoui, B., Burger, L., Froger, C., Isingrini, M., & Taconnat, L. (2019). Optimising memory strategy use in young and older adults: The role of metamemory and internal strategy use. Acta Psychologica, 192, 73-86.
Seminowicz, D. A., Shpaner, M., Keaser, M. L., Krauthamer, G. M., Mantegna, J., Dumas, J. A., and Naylor, M. R. (2013), ‘Cognitive-behavioral therapy increases prefrontal cortex gray matter in patients with chronic pain’ The Journal of Pain 14(12), 1573-1584.
Shabaneh, Y., & Farrah, M. .2019. The effect of games on vocabulary retention. Indonesian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2.1, 79-90. doi: 10.25134/ijli.v2i01.1687.
Solopchuk, O., Alamia, A., Olivier, E., & Zénon, A. .2016. Chunking improves symbolic sequence processing and relies on working memory-gating mechanisms. Learning & Memory, 23.3, 108-112.
Thayer, J. F., & Brosschot, J. F. .2005. Psychosomatics and psychopathology: looking up and down from the brain. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30.10, 1050-1058.
Van den Bergh, O., Stegen, K., & Van de Woestijne, K. P. (1998). Memory effects on symptom reporting in a respiratory learning paradigm. Health Psychology, 17.3, 241.
Van Vugt, M. K., Hitchcock, P., Shahar, B., & Britton, W. (2012). The effects of mindfulness-based cognitive activities on affective memory recall dynamics in depression: a mechanistic model of rumination. Frontiers in human neuroscience, pp. 6, 257.
Vats, N., & Sharma, A. (2017). Engineering Students Suffer from the Top Mental Health Problems & Challenges. Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, 14(1), 7-14.
Weed, K., Ryan, E. B., & Day, J. (1990). Metamemory and attributions as mediators of strategy use and recall. Journal of Educational Psychology, 849-855.
Williams, J. M. G., Teasdale, J. D., Segal, Z. V., & Soulsby, J. (2000). Mindfulness-based cognitive activities reduces general autobiographical memory in formerly depressed patients. Journal of abnormal psychology, 109.1, 150.
World Health Organisation (2021). Adolescent mental health. Retrieved from: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/adolescent-mental-health
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Musyandi, A. Z., Dahrul, A., Handayani, R., Syahti, M. N., Lindriani, N., & Huda, A. (2024). Reducing stress among new boarding school students: The impact of Al-Qur’an reading intensity analyzed through expert systems and PHP. Nusantara Journal of Behavioral and Social Science, 3(1), 35–44. https://doi.org/10.47679/202451
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