Reciprocal Dynamics between Puberty Knowledge and Institutional Support among Female Students in Islamic Boarding Schools
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https://doi.org/10.47731/5zrkx727Keywords:
Islamic boarding school, Knowledge, Menarche, Puberty, School supportAbstract
Coping with pubertal changes while living apart from one's family often poses considerable difficulty for adolescents, particularly young women. An educational approach that integrates reproductive health literacy with religious teaching is expected to prepare students to face puberty responsibly while remaining grounded in religious values. This study set out to examine the extent of female students' understanding of puberty and to determine how this understanding relates to the support provided by an Islamic boarding school (pesantren). Two questionnaires were administered to 189 female students enrolled in a private Islamic boarding school in East Java, Indonesia. Data were processed in R version 4.4.0 using Pearson's product-moment correlation, complemented by Spearman's rank correlation, to examine how students' demographic characteristics related to their knowledge and to the support they perceived from the school. The analysis revealed a moderate and statistically significant association between students' knowledge and perceived school support (r = 0.354), reflecting a mutually associated pattern between the two variables. Among demographic characteristics, current age, age at menarche, sources of information about puberty, and parental education level exerted only a marginal influence on students' knowledge. Notably, mothers' educational attainment was significantly associated with school support, whereas information obtained from peers showed a negative statistical association with school support. Most demographic variables, however, showed no significant association with either students' knowledge or school support. These findings underline the need for boarding schools to actively support young female students as they navigate puberty, doing so in tandem with efforts to strengthen their knowledge base.
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