Malaysian Youth Awareness Towards Spiritual Program

Abd. Wahab, Norazlina and Abd. Ghani, Abdullah and Maamor, Selamah and Aziz, Ahmad Bashir and Ahmad Razimi, Mohd Shahril and Nik Abdullah, Nik Safiah and Elias, Nor Hanim (2018) Malaysian Youth Awareness Towards Spiritual Program. Journal of Social Science Research, 6 (6). pp. 1202-1027. ISSN 2321-1091

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Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the awareness on spirituality programs among youth in Malaysia. In Islam, spirituality is defined as the presence of a relationship with Allah that affects the individual?s self-worth, sense of meaning, and connectedness with others and nature. It has significant effect for health, positive development of a person?s sense of self and for enabling identity to frame the individual?s pursuit of a life path eventuating in idealized adulthood. The lack of spirituality may leads to social problems such as loitering, racers, bohsia, bohjan, club servers (GRO), alcohol consumption, and drug abuse. To minimize these problems, the government as well as the private sectors manage to setup various programs and activities in order to develop and improve spirituality among youth. Hence, awareness on these programs is imperative. Use of press media, incorporation in mainstream education (basic, secondary and tertiary), celebrities? participation in spirituality programs are some of the ways by which spirituality programs and activities can be heralded. Using a survey of 4703 youth in Malaysia, this study aims to examine the awareness of youth in Malaysia towards the existence of spirituality program for youth. The paper concluded with recommendations of ways of sensitizing youth on the need to be spirituality conscious

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Awareness; Spirituality; Spiritual Program; Youth
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion
Divisions:	Islamic Business School
Depositing User:	Mr. Izhar Hj. Hashim
Date Deposited:	05 Nov 2025 11:39
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2025 11:39
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/32555

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