The Influence Of Previous Educational Background On The Spiritual Well Being Of University Students

Education is an effort made to improve a better life. Education is essentially a planned effort to realize the learning process so that students actively develop their potential for religious spiritual strength, self control, personality, intelligence, noble character, and skills needed for themselves, society, and the state. So education is an activity that will make changes in a person. Spiritual well being is one of the educational methods that lead students to become individuals who are noble, disciplined, responsible, obedient and can reduce the moral damage that occurs today. The purpose of this study is to observe the effect of previous educational background on students' spiritual well being. This research is a correlational quantitative research using 77 respondents from the Faculty of Humanities, University of North Sumatra consisting of class A and class B with educational backgrounds of SMA, MAN, MAS and pesantren. The results of this study are the subject of a very high spiritual well being scale score of 32.47%. The high category totalled 49.35% and the medium category 18.18%. The conclusion of this study is that the higher a person's spiritual well being, the higher his resilience will be. Conversely, the lower a person's spiritual well being, the lower the individual's resilience ability.