Analysis of Stress-Coping Behavior of Female Tahfiz students at an Islamic Boarding School X Semarang City: A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Maha santri tahfiz is a term for students who live in Islamic boarding schools and are memorizing the Quran with a load three times heavier because of college, as students and memorizers of the Qur’an who must be strict in managing their time, which causes them to be often depressed so that they are easily stressed. The purpose of the study was to analyze the coping behavior of female tahfiz students. The research uses a quantitative method with a cross sectional approach. The population is 60 students with a total sampling sample. The results showed that age (p=0.036) was related to coping behavior, stress, emotion, focused coping, but not related to coping, stress, problem, focused coping. The variables of college majors, knowledge, attitudes, availability of facilities and infrastructure, availability of information, and attitudes and behaviors of the closest people are not related to the two behaviors of coping stress. Islamic boarding schools need to review the tahfiz program related to the minimum age limit and need preventive promotional efforts related to mental health problems from health and educational institutions in Islamic boarding schools