Increasing the Meaning of Life Through Qur’anic Counseling for Inmates with Narcotics Cases

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine whether Quranic Counseling has an impact on increasing the sense of meaning in life for drug inmates at the Class IIA Parepare Penitentiary. The research method used was a quantitative experiment with a quasi-experimental design using a non-equivalent control group design. The sample size was 19 drug inmates at the Class IIA Parepare Penitentiary. Ten inmates were in the experimental group and nine inmates were in the control group. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling. Data collection was conducted by completing a questionnaire. Hypothesis testing was carried out using the Mann-Whitney test using SPSS version 26. The results of the data analysis of the difference test for the control and experimental groups showed a significant value of 0.682 > 0.05, indicating that the Ha hypothesis was rejected and the H0 hypothesis was accepted. However, although the hypothesis of a significant effect of variable x on y was not proven, this does not necessarily reject the theory of the influence of Quranic Counseling on individuals' sense of meaning in life. This is known from the individual data calculations carried out, there were 7 subjects who experienced an increase in the meaningfulness of life score in the post-test data results after being given Qur'anic Counseling treatment