Background: Rural women in India are often confronted with situations that make it difficult for them to access formal mental health services such as inaccessibility, internalized stigma, believing that suffering is due to external causes and gender inequalities. These barriers delay receiving formal care for mental health and make these women resort to informal ways of coping such as community support and local faith healers. Methods: This study aimed to explore the informal coping strategies and beliefs around mental health among 100 rural women over the age of 18 years residing in Amroha district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Being a qualitative study, the method employed for the survey was focused group discussions and the participants were included through a convenience snowball sampling. The discussions were held in Hindi language for the ease of the participants and were recorded for analysis which was done through a thematic analysis approach. Results: The results highlighted six broad themes: (1) burden of responsibilities and emotional burnout, (2) physiological manifestations of psychological distress, (3) normalization of chronic stress, (4) psychological distress arising from marital conflict and gender-based adversity, (5) reliance on spiritual and informal coping strategies in place of formal mental healthcare, and (6) emotional suppression and silent tolerance. Conclusions: The findings suggest the urgent need to design culturally aligned psychotherapeutic interventions that focus on creating awareness through psychoeducation that could reduce stigma as well as helping rural women deal with their unmet mental health challenges.
Islamic character education faces contemporary challenges in utilizing relevant media to cultivate moral resilience among learners. This study examines the representation of patience (ṣabr) and sincerity (ikhlāṣ) in the film Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck (2013) and formulates its pedagogical implications for Islamic character education. Employing a qualitative descriptive approach with multimodal content analysis, data were collected through cinematic observation, transcribing audio-visual units, and analyzing the dramatic structure across four pivotal scenes. The findings reveal that patience and sincerity are articulated through four distinct forms: active resilience in overcoming adversity, spiritual coping (syifā') via Qur'anic recitation (QS. An-Nisa: 36), social sincerity (iḫsân) demonstrated through forgiveness and altruism (QS. Ali 'Imran: 134), and absolute acceptance (riḍā) of divine decree (QS. Yasin: 82–83). These moral values are communicated not through dogmatic narratives, but through contextual character development, physical gestures, and emotional transformations. This study concludes that audio-visual media serves as an effective, reflective instrument for internalizing Islamic values. Practically, these findings offer an innovative pedagogical model for educators to strengthen learners' emotional regulation, social empathy, and spiritual resilience in navigating modern social pressures.
تربیت اخلاقی اسلامی در مواجهه با چالش‌های معاصر، در بهره‌گیری از رسانه‌های مرتبط برای پرورش تاب‌آوری اخلاقی در میان فراگیران قرار دارد. این پژوهش به بررسی بازنمایی صبر (ṣabr) و اخلاص (ikhlāṣ) در فیلم Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck (۲۰۱۳) و تبیین پیامدهای تربیتی آن برای تربیت اخلاقی اسلامی می‌پردازد. با به‌کارگیری رویکرد توصیفی-کیفی و تحلیل محتوای چندوجهی، داده‌ها از طریق مشاهده سینمایی، رونویسی واحدهای صوتی-تصویری و تحلیل ساختار دراماتیک در چهار صحنه کلیدی گردآوری شد. یافته‌ها نشان می‌دهد که صبر و اخلاص در چهار شکل متمایز بیان می‌شوند: تاب‌آوری فعال در مواجهه با دشواری‌ها، مقابله معنوی (syifā') از طریق تلاوت قرآن (سوره نساء: ۳۶)، اخلاص اجتماعی (iḫsân) که از طریق بخشش و ایثار (سوره آل‌عمران: ۱۳۴) نشان داده می‌شود و پذیرش مطلق (riḍā) نسبت به تقدیر الهی (سوره یاسین: ۸۲–۸۳). این ارزش‌های اخلاقی نه از طریق روایت‌های آموزنده، بلکه از طریق رشد شخصیتی زمینه‌مند، حرکات بدنی و تحولات عاطفی منتقل می‌شوند. این پژوهش نتیجه می‌گیرد که رسانه‌های صوتی-تصویری ابزاری مؤثر و تأمل‌برانگیز برای درونی‌سازی ارزش‌های اسلامی هستند. به‌طور عملی، این یافته‌ها الگویی نوآورانه برای تقویت تنظیم هیجانی، همدلی اجتماعی و تاب‌آوری معنوی فراگیران در مواجهه با فشارهای اجتماعی معاصر در اختیار مربیان قرار می‌دهد.
