The Faith Experience as the Base Character Development Psychology

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201015.004How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Faith experience, character development, Islamic psychology

Abstract

This study seeks to examine the faith experience as a basis for character development psychology. With the development of Islamic psychology, which is one of the essential studies is the Fitrah, and the great general of human beings is to compensate God as his Lord, it will be excavated the psychology of character development with a faith-based experience, so that it becomes a character that must be possessed and to be declared by every believer. The type of research used is qualitative research, with phenomenology, i.e. an approach that seeks to understand the meaning, values, perception, and also ethical considerations in every action and decision on the world of human life. The data collection methods used are participant observation and free interviews. The results of this study show that the initial faith that is perceived by the participants can be differentiated into three: at home, at school, and in the environment including the organization. The strong faith experience of the participants occurs when participants experience suffering, trials, or calamities in life, and when they are rewarded with the great goodness of Allah SWT, that is when their prayers, their hopes are taken by Allah SWT. There are at least 8 positive characters that can be developed from this faith experience from the participants, namely, (1) grateful; (2) Praying (3) honest; (4) like to help; (5) Patience; (6) Keeping prayers; (7) The love of science; and (8) forgive.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alivermana Wiguna
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/15
TI  - The Faith Experience as the Base Character Development Psychology
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th Progressive and Fun Education International Conference (PFEIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 17
EP  - 20
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201015.004
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201015.004
ID  - Wiguna2020
ER  -