AN ANALYSIS ON HOW SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE AFFECTS STRESS MANAGEMENT OF THE STUDENTS OF INSTITUT TEKNOLOGI BANDUNG

• Main Author: Irenne
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/64452
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Stress in modern societies has become a big phenomenon and there are some issues with majority concerns to employees, organizations, and state. stress is an unavoidable thing that higher education is also bound by this problem. Management is urged to pay more attention since stress affects individuals especially in millenials generation which are known as the generations with higher tendency of stress. This issue is not relatively new, but the consequences urged respondly to find new alternative ways to overcome this issue. The study of Spiritual Intelligence and its dimensions is quite interesting for the researcher to find the answer of managing stress. From the literature analysis, the researcher assumes that spiritual intelligence has plays role in stress management and relates to Stress Coping in which Stress Coping Resources become a mediating factor between both. Spiritual Intelligence relates to Stress Coping through two factors in Stress Coping Resources: Self-Efficacy and Mental Condition. This research tries to analyze how ITB students cope with their stress and how spiritual intelligence as the variable affects ITB Student’s stress management. The research was conducted by a qualitative method with Phenomenology approach in order to gain the essence of stress experiences of ITB students and how spiritual intelligence as a predictive factor plays a role in managing their stress. Through its seven dimensions, Spiritual Intelligence helps people to boost their mental health condition that is a requirement in surviving in their stress. A good spiritual intelligence has impacted on a good outcome of an individual in managing their stress.