THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND STUDENT'S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

Abstract

Among factors influencing academic performance of a student include socioeconomic, parent educational level, family income, self-motivation, teaching style by teachers and learning style by the student himself. However, spiritual practice is also seen as a stimulus shaping student academic performance moreover for a Muslim student. Therefore, this study is implemented to examine forms of spiritual practice adopted in the daily life of students of the Faculty of Islamic Studies (FIS). This study is also intended to identify the difference of academic performance based on gender, apart from investigating the correlation between spiritual practice and student academic performance. The research design being adopted was a survey. This study used a systematic random sampling as the sampling technique (N=291). Data are collected through the distribution of questionnaires and analyzed according to statistical descriptive and inferential. The findings show that there are several forms of daily kerohanian practice and learning related kerohanian practice done by the
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students of FIS. This study also indicates that there is a significant difference between male and female students from the academic achievement perspective (t=4.942; p<0.01) and a significant correlation between spiritual practice with student’s academic achievement (r=0. 262 ; p<0.01).
Keywords: academic performance, Islamic studies student, kerohanian practices, spirituality