Interpersonal communication within the family for improving adolescent religiosity

National education is a conscious and planned effort to help children develop their potential be spiritually strong, religious, intelligent, a strong personality and noble character and noble skills. For this reason, education not only focuses on the aspect of children’s knowledge but also on religion and morals aspects. This education begins in the family through communication patterns that are created between parents and children in the form of interpersonal communication that can increase the religiosity of adolescents. Therefore, this article aims to measure the interpersonal communication within the family. The author uses quantitative methods with technical correlation to determine the relationship between two variables, namely interpersonal communication in the family and youth religiosity, and includes 303 adolescents as a sample. The data were collected using a Likert scale and processed using Excel and SPSS 16 programs in order to obtain the results that the application of good interpersonal communication in families will increase adolescent religiosity. This leads to the conclusion ‘there is a mutually influential relationship between interpersonal communication in the family and adolescent religiosity’.Contribution: This article contributes to Christian families in increasing interpersonal communication as a pattern of youth formation, because it can increase their religiosity.

The Influence of Parental Religiosity on the Health of Children during Late Adolescence/Early Adulthood: A Test of Mediation

The present study explores whether adolescent religiosity, health-related behaviors, and marital stability mediate the association between parental religiosity and health. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult (Add) Health, I model potential direct and indirect effects between three measures of parental religiosity (i.e., parental institutional religiosity, parental personal religiosity, and parental religious affiliation); three sets of mediators indicating adolescent religiosity, health-related behaviors, and marital stability; and self-rated health during late adolescence/early adulthood. Overall, I found that parental institutional religiosity has a direct effect on the self-rated health of children during late adolescence/early adulthood, and that it influences self-rated health by reducing adolescent and parental smoking. I also found evidence for deleterious effects of parental institutional religiosity on health as well. Future research should explore variation in the influence of parental religiosity on self-rated health between various sociodemographic groups and between different stages of the life course.

Hubungan Tingkat Religiusitas terhadap Kecemasan Moral dan Alternatif Pembinaan Moral pada Kenakalan Siswa

Teenagers as the successors of the Indonesian people have received high expectations from the community in moral behavior. Various challenges faced by adolescents today can be able to plunge adolescents into immoral behavior. Adolescent moral behavior is based on adolescent moral anxiety, namely the existence of a personal sense of blame every time a teenager commits an offense. Moral anxiety of adolescents is influenced by the level of adolescent religiosity, if adolescents with moderate religiosity tend to have high moral anxiety as well. To get adolescents with good moral religiosity and anxiety need an alternative moral guidance for juvenile delinquency. Alternative moral guidance is carried out through the cultivation of the character of faith and devotion to God who is omnipresent. In addition, it is necessary to involve teachers of Religious Education and Human Rights as counselors and the implementation of scout extracurricular activities that can shape the positive character of students. Abstrak Remaja sebagai penerus bangsa Indonesia telah mendapatkan ekspetaksi tinggi dari masyarakat dalam perilaku bermoral. Berbagai tantangan yang dihadapi remaja saat ini bisa dapat menjerumuskan remaja dalam perilaku tidak bermoral. Perilaku bermoral remaja dilandasi dengan kecemasan moral remaja yakni adanya rasa tertuduh secara pribadi setiap kali remaja melakukan pelanggaran. Kecemasan rmoral remaja dipengaruhi oleh tingkat religiusitas remaja, jika remaja dengan religiusitas sedang cenderung tinggi akan memiliki kecemasan moral yang tinggi pula. Untuk mendapatkan remaja dengan religiusitas dan kecemasan moral yang baik perlu alternatif pembinaan moral terhadap kenakalan remaja. Alternatif pembinaan moral dilaksanakan melalui penanaman karakter keimanan dan ketaqwaan terhadap Tuhan yang mahaesa. Selain itu perlu pelibatan guru Pendidikan Agama dan Budi Pekerti sebagai konselor dan pelaksanaan ekstrakurikuler pramuka yang dapat membentuk karakter positif siswa.

Youth Religiosity and Da'wah Development in The LPKA Class II Detention Sukamiskin Bandung

The purpose of this study, first to obtain empirical data on the level of adolescent religiosity of assisted residents in Rutan LPKA Class II Sukamiskin Bandung. Secondly, to obtain data on the development of da'wah and religious formation towards adolescent Guidance residents in the LPKA Class II Detention Center Sukamiskin Bandung. This study uses the Research and Development (R&D) method or research and development with a qualitative approach. The results showed that the religiosity of the assisted residents in the LPKA Prison was categorized into three, namely: the level of religion was very good, good enough and less, of the three categories determined the da'wah program and religious coaching at the Prison for Youth LPKA Sukamiskin Bandung. The development of da'wah and patterns of religious guidance for youth assisted residents at the Class II Sukamisnin Bandung Prison LPKA is carried out by involving various parties. As an institution, collaborating with the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Bandung and MUI in Bandung is carried out periodically and on a scheduled basis. Then with the local cleric figure, the leader of the Sukamiskin boarding school in developing da'wah about child worship and morals.Tujuan penelitian ini, pertama untuk mendapartkan data empirik tingkat religiusitas remaja warga binaan di Rutan LPKA Kelas II Sukamiskin Bandung. Kedua untuk mendapatkan data tentang pengembangan dakwah dan pebinaan keagamaan terhadap remaja warga Binaan di Rutan LPKA kelas II Sukamiskin Bandung. Penelitian ini menggunakan Metode Research and Development (R&D) atau penelitian dan pengembangan dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa, religiusitas warga binaan di Rutan LPKA dikatagorikan menjadi tiga yaitu: tingkat keagamaan sangat baik, cukup baik dan kurang, dari tiga katagori tersebut ditentukan program dakwah dan pembinaan kegamaan di Rutan remaja LPKA Sukamiskin Bandung. Pengembangan dakwah dan pola pembinaan keagamaan terhadap remaja warga binaan di Rutan LPKA kelas II Sukamisnin Bandung dilaksanakan dengan melibatkan berbagai pihak. Secara kelembagaan bekerja sama dengan Kementrian Agama kota Bandung, dan MUI kota Bandung, dilaksanakan secara periodik dan terjadwal. Kemudian dengan tokoh ulama setempat yakni pimpinan pesantren Sukamiskin dalam pengembangan dakwah tentang ibadah dan akhlak anak.

Parenting, Religion, and Moral Development

The purpose of this chapter is to review research on the role of religion in moral development within the family. We first present a model of the processes involved. Parent or family religiosity is the most distal predictor and affects moral development through its influence on parenting as well as child or adolescent religiosity. Additionally, parenting affects moral development directly, but also through its influence on child or adolescent religiosity. In other words, parent or family religiosity dynamically interconnects with parenting styles and practices, and with family relationships, and these in turn influence moral development directly as well as through child or adolescent religiosity. We also discuss how these processes might vary across faith traditions and cultures, and point to directions for future research.

Practical Postmoderns

The concluding chapter summarizes the book’s findings on the religious, spiritual, and secular lives of American twentysomethings. It compares the findings from the National Study of American Twentysomethings with research on adolescent religiosity and analyses the role of spirituality in the lives of Christian and religiously unaffiliated Twentysomethings. Chapter 7 also includes multivariate analyses of the strength of association between religion, spirituality, and eight life statuses. Lastly, this chapter discusses the importance of the 20s to understanding the life course as well as thinking about what the future holds for America’s Christian traditions and the growing number of adults with no religious affiliation.

Secrets and Lies: Adolescent Religiosity and Concealing Information from Parents

There is very little research on the relationship between adolescent religiosity and concealing information from parents, although research on religiosity and family life is plentiful. Therefore, I used the second wave of the National Study of Youth and Religion to examine the relationship between adolescent religiosity and lying to parents and keeping secrets from parents. The results suggest that adolescents who attend religious services more often are less likely to keep secrets from parents, whereas adolescents who believe that religion is important are both less likely to lie to parents and keep secrets from parents. Being spiritual, but not religious, is not related to lying to parents or keeping secrets from parents. Results also suggest that primarily alcohol use, substance using peers, and morality mediate the effect of adolescent religiosity on lying to parents and keeping secrets from parents. Adolescents who attend religious services often and believe that religion is important are less likely to use alcohol, less likely to have friends that use substances, and are more likely to believe that moral rules should not be broken, which helps to explain why they are less likely to lie to parents and keep secrets from parents.

Pengaruh Pola Asuh Autoritatif Terhadap Religiositas Remaja Gereja Kristen Jawa Se-Klasis Surakarta

Authoritative parenting was parenting which gives children a freedom to create and explore everything with controls from their parents. Aspects of authoritative parenting are giving an example, discipline, dialogue and parents’acceptance of adolescents. The objective of this research was to give empirical evidence about the effects of authoritative parenting on adolescent religiosity. Forty adolescences ages 13 to 17 years old from Java Christian Church in Surakarta filled the questionnaire. Forty data were analyzed by product moment correlation and t-test. The result shows that authoritative parenting has a strong correlation with adolescent religiosity. The result also shows that authoritative parenting significantly has positive effects on adolescent religiosity.AbstrakPola asuh autoritatif merupakan pola asuh yang memberikan kebebasan kepada anak untuk bereksplorasi dalam kendali orang tua. Apsek-aspek pola asuh autoritatif adalah menjadi teladan, disiplin, dialog dan peenerimaan orang tua terhadap perkembangan remaja. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah memberikan bukti empiris tentang adanya pengaruh pola asuh autoritatif terhadap religiositas remaja. Angket disebar dan diisi oleh empat puluh anak remaja usia 13 – 17 tahun Gereja Kristen Jawa se-Surakarta. Empat puluh data dianalisis dengan menggunakan rumus Korelasi Product Moment dan t-test. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa pola asuh autoritatif memiliki pengaruh yang kuat terhadap religiositas remaja. Hasilnya pun menunjukkan bahwa pola asuh autoritatif memiliki pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap religiositas remaja.