<![CDATA[Abstract. Islamic Religious Education (IRE) plays a crucial role in fostering students' spiritual and psychological maturity, particularly in coping with academic pressures that may lead to academic burnout. Academic burnout—comprising emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced self-efficacy—remains widely experienced by students, resulting in decreased motivation and academic performance in IRE. A reflective-spiritual intervention, namely muraqabah-based journaling, is therefore needed to help students manage this condition. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of muraqabah-based journaling in reducing academic burnout among eighth-grade students in the Islamic Religious Education subject at SMPN 3 Cimahi. A quantitative approach with a quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group design was employed, involving an experimental group and a control group. Data were collected through pretests and posttests using an academic burnout scale, then analyzed using validity, reliability, normality, and homogeneity tests, as well as paired-sample and independent-sample t-tests. The results showed that the reduction in academic burnout among students who participated in muraqabah-based journaling was significantly greater than among those who did not. Thus, muraqabah-based journaling is effective in reducing academic burnout among eighth-grade students in the Islamic Religious Education subject at SMPN 3 Cimahi. Keywords: Journaling, muraqabah, academic burnout. Abstrak. Pendidikan Agama Islam (PAI) berperan penting dalam pembentukan kematangan spiritual dan psikologis siswa, khususnya dalam menghadapi tekanan akademik yang dapat memicu academic burnout. Academic burnout yang meliputi kelelahan emosional, sinisme, dan rendahnya efikasi diri masih banyak dialami siswa dan berdampak pada menurunnya motivasi serta hasil belajar PAI. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan intervensi reflektif-spiritual berupa jurnaling berbasis muraqabah untuk membantu siswa mengelola kondisi tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui efektivitas jurnaling berbasis muraqabah dalam menurunkan academic burnout siswa pada mata pelajaran PAI kelas VIII di SMPN 3 Cimahi. Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan desain kuasi eksperimen nonequivalent control group, melibatkan kelompok eksperimen dan kelompok kontrol. Data dikumpulkan melalui pretest dan posttest menggunakan skala academic burnout, kemudian dianalisis menggunakan uji validitas, reliabilitas, normalitas, dan homogenitas, serta paired sample t-test dan independent sample t-test. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa penurunan academic burnout siswa yang mengikuti jurnaling berbasis muraqabah jauh lebih signifikan dibandingkan siswa yang tidak mengikuti intervensi tersebut. Dengan demikian, jurnaling berbasis muraqabah efektif dalam menurunkan academic burnout siswa pada mata pelajaran PAI kelas VIII di SMPN 3 Cimahi. Kata Kunci: Jurnaling, muraqabah, academic burnout.]]>
