This study focus on the role of religious education and changes in personal well-being in responding to the flood disaster. It investigates the relationship of trauma events towards perceived knowledge, religious personality, and well-being. Structural Equation Modelling-Partial Least Squares methodology was used to assess the hypothesized model that linked all the constructs of traumatic events and perceived knowledge with the religious personality and well-being. This research employed a comprehensive instrument that defines various factors influencing the flood victim behaviors such as the state of religious understanding, together with its varied aspects of beliefs systems, structure, the practices of religious principles and values that shape an individual personality. The questionnaires were distributed to 348 flood victims at Kelantan and Pahang. From the analysis, it reveals that all the relationships in the hypothesized model were significant and this shows that all constructs of trauma events, perceived knowledge, religious personality and well-being play a vital role within religious education indicators.

This study compares the Muslim flood victims' wellbeing and their practices of Muslim religious personality as coping strategies in dealing with disaster stress by flood victims in four different districts' in Malaysia. The studies involve a survey conducted in two separate studies involving four different districts in Peninsular Malaysia. The districts chosen were Kuala Terengganu and Dengkil for study one; while the other two districts were Besut in Terengganu and Salak Tinggi, Sepang Selangor for the second study. A total of 200 flood victim has participated in this study with majority are from Malay origin and Muslim in faith. Both studies have gathered 100 sample for each studies. The participant was randomly selected in the flood relief center to answer the questionnaire given. The result was analyzed and compared descriptively. Lower education level has serious influence towards sample understanding of the item used. It also influenced the respondent job and income which have shaped the non-significant result of all the inventories used in these two studies. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

This study examines the impact of religiosity on financial debt. It also explores the impact of religiosity on debt stress. The study hypothesizes that people with higher religious social norms are likely to have lower financial debt and people with lower financial debts experience lower debt stress. The study used quantitative data using Muslim Religiosity Personality Inventory (MRPI), Financial Impact Scale (FIS) and the Family Economic Stress Scale (FESS). The questionnaires were taken from a sample of 180 participants, which stands from government employees. The study found a significant relationship between financial debts with the level of religiosity of the subjects. The study also found positive association between financial debts with debt stress suggesting that individuals with high financial debts experiences high level of debt stress. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

This study is investigating the psychometric properties of the five componential factors of Islamic Moderation Instrumentation (IMI) among students of Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions (MHLI). The five componential factors of IMI is a newly constructed instrument to measure the Islamic moderation theory within the practices of students within MHLI. The data for this study were collected by using the random sampling from six public universities in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The questionnaire was the primary tool for the data gathering. The data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling technique using AMOS 23 version software. The findings showed that the five componential factors of Islamic Moderation's Instrumentation (IMI) are positively significant and correlated with each variable. The psychometric data suggest that the five factors modeling Islamic moderations are the cycle of IM-MHLI between balance and moderate.

This study examined the relationship between stress and coping in a sample of 150 survivals of flood victims. Questionnaire used in this study were Disaster Stress and Coping Skill Inventory. The study also adopted an exploratory qualitative approach where a number of five respondents were interviewed. The result showed that there was a significant relationship between stress and coping, and no significant gender differences in stress and coping among the respondents. The result also showed that the respondents suffered stress and needed strong coping skills. Religion was found to be the most apparent coping skill among the victims. The implication of this study suggests strong religious and social support from people who are knowledgeable and skills in the stress management and religious coping to the flood victims (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Selection and Peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of PSYSOC 2013