Religion Intervention in Character Building of University Students

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200824.076How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Intervention, Religion, Character Building

Abstract

This study is intended to examine the impact of the religion intervention in character building of university students. The subject involved as many as 112 students in the department of physical and health education, Faculty of Sports and Health, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo (UNG), from a total of four classes. The research Religion intervention served a purpose as the research design; it started prior to learning activities or classes. The interventionwas divided into two, e.g., religion intervention (ta’limor Islamic forum) and place of worship intervention (mosque).The first intervention (ta’lim) was conducted before dhuhr prayer time on which all of the students attended an Islamic forum to gain in-depth insight regarding the importance of worship. Commendable natures, e.g., discipline, obedience, leadership, cooperation, mutual respect, and loyalty to the group, as well as other goodnatures. The results reveal that the religion intervention constructs three characteristics of the students, namely normative, doubtful, and over-confidence. The percentage of these characteristics are students with normative character 69.23%, students with doubtful character 16.27%, and students with over-confidence character 14.45%.The above findings prove that the religion intervention is fruitful in building the students’ character.

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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  - Said Hariadi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/25
TI  - Religion Intervention in Character Building of University Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Progress in Social Science, Humanities and Education Research Symposium (PSSHERS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 322
EP  - 325
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200824.076
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200824.076
ID  - Hariadi2020
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