Publication: Muslim Adolescents Moral Value And Coping Strategy Among Muslim Female Adolescent Involved In Premarital Sex
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2014
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Elsevier Science Bv
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Islam is an official religion in Malaysia, and premarital sex is absolutely forbidden in Islam. Despite being an Islamic country the number of adolescent involves in premarital sex is increasing each year. This study intends to find the relationship between Islamic moral value and coping strategies among female adolescents involved in premarital sex. The study explores the demographic and the psychological profile of the participants of the study. The subject of this study consists of 238 occupants from four government's shelter and rehabilitation home. Moral Values Inventory for Muslim Adolescences (MVIMA) and Coping Strategy Inventory (adapted and translated into Malay Version from Spanish Version of Coping Strategies) were used in this study. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics and for inferential data Pearson Correlation was used. Finding of the research shows that there is a significant relationship between coping strategies and moral values among adolescences involved in pre marital sex. The result of this study give the implication that the female adolescent and their parents should be given with sex education as an early measures to prevent premarital sex and the disease related to it. The implication of this study reflects the need of prevention and also rehabilitation program to high risk group teenagers. Teenagers need to develop positive values toward self-respect and self-esteem as well as coping strategy through assertive training. This study addresses the limitation of data collection from rehabilitation centres under the provision of Social Welfare Department. Thus future study should include shelter home for teenage pregnant girls run by the non government organization. Future study should also include qualitative approach to have in-depth understanding of premarital among teenage girls develop positive coping strategies in the process of recovering. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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premarital sex, adolescent, moral value, coping strategy