Pengaruh Religiusitas terhadap Resiliensi Trauma pada Perempuan Muslimah Terindikasi Ptsd: Peran Status Pernikahan sebagai Moderator

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the predictive influence of religiosity on trauma resilience among Muslim women exhibiting symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), while simultaneously analyzing the moderating role of marital status within the dynamics of this relationship. Trauma resilience is conceptualized as an individual's capacity to recover, adapt positively to adversity, and restore psychological functioning post traumatic events. Employing a quantitative approach, the study involved a highly homogeneous clinical sample of 108 Muslim women in Indonesia who met stringent clinical inclusion criteria with a PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) cutoff score of $\geq$ 50 ($\alpha$ = .709) based on Weathers et al. (1993), selected from a total pool of 413 respondents. Data were gathered using the Muslim Religiosity Scale ($\alpha$ = .797) and the Trauma Resilience Scale (TRS) ($\alpha$ = .956). Hypotheses were tested using simple linear regression and Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA). The results revealed that religiosity had no significant predictive influence on trauma resilience within this clinical sample ($R^2$ = .001; $p$ = .703), leading to the rejection of $H_1$. Furthermore, marital status was not found to moderate the relationship between religiosity and trauma resilience ($p$ = .540), thereby rejecting $H_2$. These findings indicate that within a population with clinical PTSD, religiosity does not automatically facilitate the development of resilience. At this severe level of neurobiological distress, ritualistic spiritual practices and the support of formal marital status undergo functional attenuation due to the occurrence of spiritual struggles, spiritual bypass, and the phenomenon of "speechless terror" caused by subcortical brain impairment. This study emphasizes the urgent need to integrate bottom-up, brain-body relational clinical interventions, such as Brainspotting Therapy, aligned with Islamic values to optimize the recovery process of trauma survivors in severe clinical conditions. This integration aims to stabilize the somatic nervous system of survivors before top-down cognitive-spiritual values can be effectively internalized.