Islamic Religiosity as a Moderator of Academic Burnout and Resilient Coping in Muslim Students

Dina Nazriani, Fasihah Irfani Fitri, Suri Mutia Siregar, Tarmidi Hasballah Dadeh, Dwi Dinnur Riszki

Abstract


Academic burnout is a pervasive threat to university students' wellbeing, and identifying protective resources that sustain resilient coping remains a priority for student mental health research. While Islamic religiosity is widely assumed to buffer psychological distress among Muslim populations, empirical tests of this buffering assumption for the burnout-resilient coping relationship remain scarce. This study examined academic burnout, resilient coping, and Islamic religiosity among 159 Muslim undergraduate students at a public university in Medan, Indonesia, using a cross-sectional survey design. Academic burnout was measured with the Burnout Assessment Tool – Student Version (BAT-S), resilient coping with the Brief Resilient Coping Scale (BRCS), and Islamic religiosity with a composite of the IPIP Spirituality/Religiousness scale and self-reported Islamic devotional practice; all three instruments had been validated psychometrically in this population in a companion study. A moderated regression analysis modeled on Hayes' PROCESS Model 1 tested whether religiosity moderates the burnout-resilient coping association. Religiosity significantly and positively predicted resilient coping, while burnout was negatively correlated with resilient coping at the bivariate level, though this effect became only marginally significant once religiosity was controlled. The hypothesized burnout × religiosity interaction was not statistically significant, indicating that religiosity did not moderate the burnout-resilience relationship in this sample. These findings suggest that religiosity functions more as an independent resource supporting resilient coping than as a targeted buffer against burnout, with implications for how faith-integrated campus mental health programming is designed and evaluated.

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academic burnout; resilient coping; Islamic religiosity; moderation analysis; Muslim university students

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