I don't want to feel this way”: A hermeneutic bibliotherapy model based on Serat Wulangreh to address adolescent hatred
This study explores the potential of Serat Wulangreh, a classical Javanese ethical text, as a culturally grounded resource for reflective bibliotherapy to address adolescent hatred. Drawing on Sternberg's triangular theory of hatred and a hermeneutic framework, the research interprets moral tea...
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Elsevier
2025
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| Online Access: | https://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/46515/1/I%20don%27t%20want%20to%20feel%20this%20way.pdf https://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/46515/2/pii/S2590291125010332 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102302 https://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/46515/ |
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| Summary: | This study explores the potential of Serat Wulangreh, a classical Javanese ethical text, as a culturally grounded resource for reflective bibliotherapy to address adolescent hatred. Drawing on Sternberg's triangular theory of hatred and a hermeneutic framework, the research interprets moral teachings embedded in selected pupuh wulangreh as narrative tools for affective reflection. Supplemented by expert interviews and researcher reflexivity, the study reveals how these values offer an alternative to universalist models of emotional regulation by promoting culturally resonant mechanisms of moral introspection and identity reconstruction. While the study is conceptual in scope, it contributes to the development of culturally responsive therapeutic approaches and challenges the dominance of catharsis-based, individualistic paradigms. The findings suggest that adolescent hatred, often shaped by social exclusion and moral injury, can be ethically reframed through dialogical engagement with local wisdom. The study highlights the transformative potential of symbolic texts in shaping emotional meaning and calls for further empirical research on the practical application of reflective bibliotherapy rooted in indigenous knowledge systems. |
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