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The Effect of Listening Quran on Reducing Stress Moderated by Gender

Ahmad Rusdi, Fani Eka Nurtjahjo, Sakinah Sakinah

Abstract

The population of people experiencing stress is increasing. On the other hand, Indonesian society has several religious practices that can reduce stress, one of which is listening to the Quran. Several studies on the effects of listening to the Quran on stress have been carried out, but none have discuss about the gender aspect. In fact, these gender differences play a role in stress, religiosity, and spirituality. This research carried out an quasi experiment by dividing two groups based on gender. Both groups were treated by listening to the Quran Surah al-Insān and reading the translation. The pre-test and post-test were taken using Stress Pilot which can measure stress through tonic respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). Overall, based on the results of the Wilcoxon test analysis, it is known that Z = -1.1722 and p-value = 0.138. which shows that the reduction in stress is not significant. When the two groups were analyzed separately, very different results were seen. In the male group, treatment actually caused a significant increase in stress (p= 0.034; η2=0.913). Meanwhile, in the female group, treatment caused a significant reduction in stress (p=0.014; η2=0.8250). Different gain scores of the two groups significantly different (p= 0.005; η2=0.808). This result may be explained by other findings that there are differences in solemnity between men and women (p= 0.019; η2=0.651). The higher the subject's solemnity, the sharper the level of stress reduction (r= 0.599; p= 0.034). This shows that solemnity plays a role in this research. Thus, for research and development of Islamic psychotherapy, it can be considered that gender will influence solemnity, then solemnity will help the intervention of listening to the Quran to successfully reduce stress.

Keywords

Quran; stress; gender; biopsychological

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