Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal

Engagement and Life Satisfaction: Testing the Parallel Mediator of Academic Engagement Among Muslim Students

Susilawati, Susilawati (Unknown)
Sugiharto, Dwi Yuwono Puji (Unknown)
Sunawan, Sunawan (Unknown)
Awalya, Awalya (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 Jul 2025

Abstract

Student life satisfaction is a determining variable in academic success influenced by student engagement and academic engagement. However, these two seem overlap, yet are actually distinct. This Study aimed to examine how each type of engagement contributes to students life satisfaction. To do so, 524 students of Madrasah Aliyah or Islamic Senior High Schools in Indonesia, aged 15 to 18 years were observed. Their data were collected using three validated instruments, including the Student’s Life Satisfaction Scale, the Student Engagement Scale and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9S). In the analysis, hierarchical regression and Sobel's test were used. Based on the analysis, it was found that the contribution of emotional engagement dimension and the absorption dimension resulted a significant positive correlation with student’s life satisfaction (p < .01), emotional engagement (β = .440, p < .01) and absorption (β = .966, p < .01). Those directly predicted life satisfaction. In addition, parallel mediation of absorption academic engagement fully mediated the relationship between behavioral engagement and student’s life satisfaction (β = .096, z = 3.38, p < .05) and cognitive engagement and student’s life satisfaction (β = .156, z = 4.05, p < .01). In addition, absorption partially mediated the relationship between emotional engagement and student’s life satisfaction (β = .210, z = 6.90, p < .01). In conclusion, student engagement and academic engagement are not overlapping, but are distinct constructs

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Journal Info

Abbrev

igcj

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Subject

Arts Humanities Education

Description

Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal is a double-blind peer-reviewed and open-access journal that contained actual issues related to guidance and counseling and published twice a year (January and July) by the Institut Agama Islam Ma’arif NU (IAIMNU) Metro Lampung and managed by the Study ...