The Impact of Fasting on the Psychological Well-Being of Muslim Graduate Students
- 6 December 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Religion and Health
- Vol. 59 (6), 3270-3275
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-018-00740-3
Abstract
The main objective of this research was to evaluate the impact of fasting on the psychological well-being of Muslim graduate students. In a single-group pretest posttest research design, students who intended to fast in the month of Ramadan were asked to respond to a psychological well-being scale and its subscales before and after the end of fasting month of Ramadan. Findings show that fasting led to the promotion of overall psychological well-being, self-acceptance, autonomy, positive relations, environmental mastery, and personal growth among students who fasted in this month.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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