Toward an Integrative Model of Islamic Religious Education For Adolescent Self-Protection: a Systematic Review of Madrasah Contexts

Arif Rahmat Triasa (Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Kharisma Sukabumi)

Fahmina Jurnal Pendidikan Islam
Vol 3, No 2 (2026)

Adolescents in the digital era face increasingly complex moral, psychological, and digital risks, including cyberbullying, harmful online content, substance abuse, online gambling, and mental health problems, requiring self-protection capacities that extend beyond cognitive skills alone. Conventional educational approaches remain predominantly cognitive-behavioral and fragmented, often failing to address the holistic development needed to navigate these multidimensional challenges. Islamic Religious Education (PAI) in madrasah contexts offers a promising alternative by integrating moral values, spiritual formation, and psychosocial development into character education. In this review, adolescent self-protection is understood as the capacity to anticipate, avoid, manage, and recover from moral, psychological, social, and digital risks through moral self-regulation, emotional resilience, digital-ethical literacy, adaptive coping, and protective decision-making. This study aims to synthesize existing evidence on PAI-based strategies for adolescent self-protection and to develop an integrative conceptual model. Using a systematic literature review based on the PRISMA 2020 framework, fifty peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2017 and 2025 were selected through predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria and analyzed using thematic synthesis. The findings identify four interconnected dimensions of PAI-based self-protection: the internalization of Islamic moral values, transformative psycho-theological pedagogy, preventive and risk-responsive educational interventions, and ecological collaboration among schools, families, and communities. The review also highlights contextual factors and implementation barriers influencing these strategies. The study proposes an evidence-informed integrative model that positions Islamic Religious Education as a holistic and context-adaptive protective system for adolescent development in madrasah settings, while emphasizing the need for future empirical validation.