Depression among university students is becoming a serious health issue in the country. Their vulnerability to higher rates of stressors has a negative impact on them as students as well as on their lives. This study investigates the level of academic stress and depression and the relationship between them among medical students at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM). Questionnaires were given to 133 medical students at USIM comprising 3 sections covering demographic information, an academic stress inventory (SSI), and the Beck depression inventory (BDI). An analysis using Pearson’s correlation coefficient found a positive and significant relationship between the two variables. This study provides information to counselors on the level of academic stress and depression among students, especially medical students. It also aims to increase awareness among university authorities and parents on the importance of maintaining the mental health of students and children.

This study was conducted to identify whether the administrative workloads led to the stress level among novice principals in their new schools. In addition, we also explore whether the principals are experiencing the psychological and psychological symptoms from their stress issue. The data collection consisted of two major phases. In the first phase, questionnaires were administered to 70 novice primary principals who were just being appointed at their new schools. It was followed by three sessions of interviews with purposely selected 10 novice primary principals as the second phase. From the quantitative data analysis, primary principals perceived their schools’ administrative stress caused them a moderate stress level from their heavy administrative workloads. However, principals reported having psychological and physiological symptoms from the quantitative findings and interview sessions.

Kajian ini bertujuan mengkaji keberkesanan transformasi digital dan norma baharu kepada penggiat industri pelancongan dan kebudayaan ketika mendepani cabaran penularan pandemik Covid-19. Kajian ini menggunakan kerangka teori yang digunakan Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) meliputi 206 responden penggiat industri pelancongan domestik di seluruh Malaysia. Responden dari pelbagai latar belakang dan negeri diminta melengkapkan borang soal selidik dan analisis deskriptif serta analisis kebolehpercayaan untuk meneliti sama ada transformasi digital membantu mereka dalam promosi perniagaan pelancongan selepas Covid19. Justeru, survey keratan rentas digunakan untuk mengutip data. Persoalan kajian yang jelas dan khusus dirangka untuk meneliti sekiranya perubahan trend dalam perniagaan dilaksanakan oleh penggiat industri pelancongan, dapat membantu mereka meneruskan kelangsungan ekonomi atau apakah mereka berputus asa dan mengambil keputusan tidak bernas dalam keadaan yang tidak menentu ketika itu. Penyelidik juga berharap dapat mengenalpasti strategi komunikasi efektif yang mereka gunakan dan sekiranya pendekatan itu dapat membantu memulihkan segera ekonomi negara dan pendapatan mereka. Hasil dapatan data mendapati bahawa penggunaan platform digital terbukti membantu para penggiat industri pelancongan untuk bangkit semula, setelah terjejas teruk akibat pandemik Covid-19 dan mereka boleh bergantung kepada platform ini sekiranya berlaku krisis di masa depan. Hasil daripada kajian ini boleh digunakan sebagai rujukan kepada penggiat industri pelancongan dan pihak Kerajaan juga, dalam mencapai matlamat untuk memulihkan perniagaan masing-masing serta ekonomi negara menerusi sektor pelancongan dan kebudayaan. Secara kesimpulannya, hasil kajian ini boleh menjadi panduan untuk memperbaiki dasar, pendekatan mahupun strategi perniagaan baru dalam norma baharu. Ia juga boleh menjadi rujukan untuk mempersiapkan industri sekiranya berlaku krisis lain di masa hadapan.

This study aims to examine the gadgets addiction and sexual addiction behaviour among undergraduate students in one of public university in Malaysia. This study was conducted among 201 students consist of 94 male adolescents and 107 female adolescents from random sample selection. Their ages range were 23-25 years old from 3 different programs. The instruments were adapted from The Internet Addiction Test created by Young (1998) and Psychosocial and Individual Compulsive Sexual Behavior created by Efrati and Mikulincer (2018) with reliability Cronbach alpha of 0.65. Data collected were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 23. Statistic descriptive and inferential with analysis t-test and correlation Pearson were used to analyse the data. Results showed there is significant different between gadgets addiction behaviour among adolescents based on gender but no significant different between sexual addiction behaviour among them. Finding also showed a negative correlation between gadgets addiction and sexual addiction behavior among adolescents. This indicates that the effect of gadgets addiction toward sexual addiction behavior is in moderate level. Researcher believe there are other factors such as peers influence, environment factors and maturity of ages plays a significant variables that lead adolescents to involve in this misbehaviour problems. Researcher also recommends in future studies to get a larger sample across multiethnic and culture, parents background, level of education and status socioeconomic factor should be considered as significant variables to gain better findings.

Spirituality is an important aspect of internal humanity. It is also related to the issue of the heart, feeling and nature want to return to God. The spiritual aspect was initially given attention by the gold residents when their age was stepping on aging and physical desolation. The objective of this study is to find out about the needs of spiritual practice by the citizens of gold and its impression on peace of mind and the stability of monotheism in God. The methodology of this study is intellectual and conceptual. The terms of spiritual needs and rituals are elaborated through the Koran, Hadith and the books of Islam. The results can be found that spiritual practice is needed by gold residents. When the tranquility and stability of monotheism is achieved through knowledge, mujahadah and sharia practices and the Sunnah of the Prophet Saw.

COVID-19 is a worldwide pandemic that has had a detrimental effect on all facets of our life. As a result, there are major implication to the counseling implication. According to literature, the effects include higher anxiety and depression levels among the general population, adverse psychological impact on their daily livelihood, and higher domestic and alcohol abuse rates. This article discusses the general effects of COVID-19 to the counseling profession and its implication for counseling practice especially for counseling practitioners and counselor education programs in a Malaysian context.

This paper presents learning analytics as a mean to improve students’ learning. Most learning analytics tools are developed by in-house individual educational institutions to meet the specific needs of their students. Learning analytics is defined as a way to measure, collect, analyse and report data about learners and their context, for the purpose of understanding and optimizing learning. The paper concludes by highlighting framework of learning analytics in order to improve personalised learning. In addition, it is an endeavour to define the characterising features that represents the relationship between learning analytics and personalised learning environment. The paper pro-poses that learning analytics is dependent on personalised approach for both educators and students. From a learning perspective, stu-dents can be supported with specific learning process and reflection visualisation that compares their respective performances to the overall performance of a course. Furthermore, the learners may be provided with personalised recommendations for suitable learning resources, learning paths, or peer students through recommending system. The paper’s contribution to knowledge is in considering personalised learning within the context framework of learning analytics.

Introduction: This study aims to develop sexual orientation scale based on trait of Gay and Lesbian gender disorder from Malaysian socio cultures. The basic model of this measurement instrument is based on Fritz Klein's 7 Dimensions of Sexual Orientation (1993). Methods: This study used a mixed method design which is a combination of interview, document analysis and survey. Based on the case study, 8 Gay and Lesbian respondents were selected purposefully. Gay and Lesbian respondents were interviewed using semi-structured interview techniques. While document analysis used past literature, journals, articles, written documents and Sexual Deviant Behavior questionnaires. Interview findings form themes and are combined with document analysis findings to form a measurement instrument. Next, measuring instruments are developed according to standard procedures (Brown, 1983). Results: The construct validity of the measurement instrument was obtained from 2 counseling experts to form the Roslee Gay Sex Orientation Measurement Instrument (ISGR) and the Roslee Lesbian Sex Orientation Measurement Instrument (ISLR). ISGR inventory traits contain 6 sub-constructs namely Instinct, Expression, Nurture, Gay Behaviour, Experience Sexual Deviant Behavior and Spiritual. While the ISLR trait contains 5 sub-constructs namely Instinct, Nurture, Gay Behaviour, Experience Sexual Deviant Behavior and Spiritual. The ISGR instrument pilot test has a reliability value of 0.76 while the ISLR has a reliability value of 0.75. According to Kerlinger (1979) and Mohd Majid (1990), Cronbach's alpha reliability value above 0.6 is good and acceptable. Conclusions: These two measuring instruments can be used by parents as a measuring instrument to prevent children and teenagers from acting Gay and Lesbian. Thus, early intervention steps can be taken to recover children from Gay and Lesbian gender disorder.

This study was aimed to explore the effectiveness of group reality therapy in increasing students’ multiple intelligence, focusing on interpersonal skills. We employed quasi-experimental and pretest – posttest design with control group. The statistical population comprised primary and secondary school students in Malaysia, in which out of 24 students were from primary school and 22 students were from secondary school. Participants were selected purposely by school counselors based on students’ vulnerability of having problematic internet use (PIU). Participants then were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. The experimental group has undergone counseling session of group reality therapy, while the control group did not receive any intervention. The research tools included Generalized Problematic Internet Use Scale 2 (GPIUS 2) and Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire (ICQ-15). MIX ANOVA was used to analyze the data. The research results revealed that reality therapy in group counseling has increased the students’ interpersonal skills (P < 0.05). Keywords: Problematic Internet Use, Multiple Intelligence, Interpersonal Skill, Reality Group Therapy, School Students

Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) especially in TVET circles appears to be critical to transform the typical teacher-centred classroom by encouraging a curriculum that is driven by problem-solving, discovery, exploratory learning, and requires students to actively engage a situation to find its solution. Hence, this research aims to investigate the effect of integrating STEM education through STEM module (Inspirational Module, Reactivity of Metals, Adruino, Gas Around Us, Ninja. The sample who was from School A involved in the experimental group consisted of 20 form 3 subjects (mentees) and 20 subjects (mentors) for Control group. The research instruments used are questionnaire and has high reliability of .67, .78 and .68. The mean, standard deviation, and t-test were used to analyse the pretest and post-test data. Interview and observation were also used to analyse the treatment effectiveness. The results of the study were the comparison of soft skills before and after undertaking the STEM module treatment was different at significant 0.05. (1) Overall soft skills were higher (post-test data) than before the STEM treatment module. 2) The mean of interest in Science subject, Mathematics subject and perception towards STEM of experimental group increased, The comparison of interest in Science subject, interest in Mathematics subject and perception towards STEM before and after undertaking STEM module was different at significant 0.05. Keywords: STEM Education, STEM Module, perception, Skilled worker

Objective: Neuroticism is a medical condition associated with negative affect and is considered to predispose one to mental disorders. This study examined the effects of arousal-evoking stimuli of various strengths on the severity of neuroticism. Materials and Methods: In the Event Related Potential (ERP)/electroencephalograph (EEG) recording session that was held at the Clinical Neuroscience Laboratory at a local hospital, Electroencephalogram was recorded in 58 participants (N=29 for moderate neuroticism and 29 for mild neuroticism) after they were screened for the severity of the neurotic trait. Universal emotional pictures were chosen randomly from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) and were used as visual stimuli in the experiment. Visual stimuli were divided into three categories (high, moderate, low) based on the IAPS normative mean values of arousal. Results: The significant interaction effect of P300 latency between neuroticism and arousal strength was found in the mid-frontal region. Meanwhile, independent of neuroticism, the main effects of arousal strength of the P300 (amplitude and latency) and N200 (latency) were observed in the mid-central region. Conclusion: There is a significant interaction between the severity of neuroticism and the emotional arousal strength, thus, points to the implication of the emotion process in the brain rewards system especially among individuals with neuroticism.

The aims of this study were to examine the acceptance and attitude of Malaysia undergraduate college student’s toward LGBT community. This study was conducted toward 120 college students’ based on random sampling method. These instruments were adapted from Acceptance and Action Questionnaire - Stigma (AAQS) questionnaire developed by Levin et al. (2014). Heterosexual Attitudes Towards Homosexuality (HATH) Scale developed by Larsen et al. (1980) with Cronbach alpha was 0.84. Data collected were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 23. The analysis used statistic inference using correlation and t-test. Results showed there were significant correlation between acceptance and attitude toward LGBT community among college students and a significant relationship between acceptance and attitude based on gender among students. This also shows although government policies and laws relating to religion limit social, religious and gender equality in Malaysia, however at the college level, students are open, tolerant and accepting of these groups in the society. Therefore, it is recommended that further studies should be carried out among young people of various races, namely Malays, Chinese and Indians as the younger generation is more open-minded and provide services and facilities to better serve this group. In addition, the acceptance and attitudes of LGBT individuals attending primary and secondary schools should be helped to ensure that LGBT groups are not excluded from the national education system. Keywords: LGBT; Acceptance; Attitude; Community; College students’

This study aimed to examine the relationship between academic achievement and perceived stress amongst undergraduate students during Covid-19 pandemic. Two variables were involved namely academic achievement and perceived stress. This study involved descriptive and inferential statistics analysis. The study samples involved final year students in a Malaysian public university from 5 different programs of studies. 150 respondents were chosen based on a simple random technique from 250 population amongst undergraduate students. The students are identified as respondents that stay in campus for a period of 3 months during Movement Control Order (MCO). Questionnaires of Academic Motivation Scale (AMS-C28) and the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) by Vallerand (1992) were used with Cronbach alpha 0.85. The results showed that both genders affected the high level of academic motivation and low level of perceived stress. While based on genders there was no significant difference between academic motivation and perceived stress during movement control order amongst the students. The relationship between academic motivation and perception was also no significantly correlated during faced with these situations. In further research, researchers suggested to obtain a larger sample and involving diversity of programs from Faculties to gain a robust data and this may contribute to a better finding in the future.

Tujuan kajian ini dijalankan adalah untuk mengenal pasti hubungan antara gaya keibubapaan ibu tunggal dengan penghargaan kendiri dan resiliensi remaja dari kelaurga Melayu bercerai. Seramai 164 remaja berusia antara 13 hingga 14 tahun telah dipilih sebagai responden, penghargaan kendiri serta resiliensi responden. Ujian statistic yang sesuai seperti taburan kekerapan, peratusan, purata dan sisihan piawai telah digunakan bagi setiap soalan kajian mengikut tahap yang ditentukan. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan perisisan SPSS versi 19. Pekali Pearson telah digunakan untuk menganalisis data bagi menentukan hubungan anatara gaya keibubapaan dengan penghargaan kendiri dan resiliensi remaja pada aras signifikan 0.05. Dapatkan kajian menunjukkan terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara gaya keibubapaan penyayang dengan penghargaan kendiri pada nilai signifikan 0.000. Dapatan keseluruhan kajian menunjukkan bahawa betapa pentingya ibu tunggal memiliki gaya keibubapaan yang positif bagi mempengaruhi penghargaan kendiri serta resiliensi remaja.

Kajian ini bertujuan melihat tahap penggunaan polydrug, hubungan antara mekanisme pertahanan dan keberkesanan kendiri di kalangan pengguna polidrug di PUSPEN Sg Besi, Kuala Lumpur. Kajian ini melibatkan 210 sampel melibatkan penghuni di PUSPEN Sg Besi yang dipilih secara bertujuan kerana mengambil dadah jenis polydrugs. Instrumen Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) dan Self-Eficacy Scale (SES) diadaptasi penyelidik di gunakan dalam kajian dan di analisis menggunakan perisian SPSS versi 25. Keputusan menunjukkan tahap mekanisme pertahanan klien berada pada tahap tinggi iaitu 34.3% manakala keberkesanan kendiri berada pada tahap sederhana iaitu 34.3%. Analisis inferensi bagi kedua keputusan menunjukkan hubungan yang lemah dan negatif antara mekanisme pertahanan dan status perkahwinan, dan mekanisme pertahanan dengan penggunaan dadah iaitu (r=-0.061, p=0.0619) dan (r =-0.006, p=0.959). Manakala bagi hubungan keberkesanan kendiri dan pendidikan (r =0.219, p=0.69) turut menunjukkan hubungan yang lemah tetapi positif. Bagi hubungan mekanisme pertahanan dan keberkesanan kendiri (r =0.360, p=-0.69) juga menunjukkan yang lemah tetapi positif. Cadangan penyelidik seterusnya adalah perlu menambahkan pemboleh ubah sikap dan kesihatan mental serta penambahan persampelan bagi mendapatkan dapatan yang lebih baik. Kata kunci: mekanisme pertahanan, keberkesanan diri, pengguna polydrug

Pencapaian akademik yang baik melambangkan kecemerlangan bagi setiap pelajar. Namun, dalam mencapai kecemerlangan tersebut, antara aspek penting yang harus dihadapi oleh pelajar adalah kebolehan mengawal kebimbangan menghadapi ujian. Justeru, kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji perbezaan tahap kebimbangan menghadapi ujian dengan pencapaian Bahasa Arab dalam kalangan pelajar lelaki dan perempuan, tahun tiga jurusan kaunseling, Fakulti Kepimpinan dan Pengurusan, USIM. Kajian ini merupakan kajian kuantitatif menggunakan analisis deskriptif dan inferensi seperti T-test melalui perisian Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) versi 26. Seramai 80 orang pelajar dalam lingkungan umur 18 - 26 tahun ke atas telah dipilih melalui kaedah persampelan bertujuan. Soal selidik yang dikendalikan sendiri untuk kegunaan pengumpulan data yang merangkumi alat ukur Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI) dan skor pencapaian bahasa Arab dalam peperiksaan. Hasil dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa tidak terdapat perbezaan yang signifikan antara lelaki (M = 2.19, SD = 0.44) dan perempuan (M=2.44, SD= 0.51); t (78) = 1.5, p =0.138 dalam kebimbangan menghadapi ujian dan pencapaian bahasa Arab dalam kalangan pelajar kaunseling tahun 3 yang dikaji. Konklusinya, kajian ini dapat memberi kesedaran dan menggalakkan pelajar membuat persediaan lebih awal sekali gus dapat mengurangkan kebimbangan menghadapi ujian. Sebaiknya pencapaian bahasa Arab ditingkatkan dengan bimbingan melalui program bimbingan dan kaunseling akademik yang harus diaktifkan di setiap fakulti terutama sebelum peperiksaan.

Audit Bureau Circulations (ABC) dalam laporannya berkaitan edaran akhbar di Malaysia menunjukkan bilangan jualan akhbar bahasa Melayu jatuh merudum. Contohnya Berita Harian mencatatkan kemerosotan jualan kepada 66,524 naskhah pada Januari 2019 berbanding 125,514 naskhah pada Januari 2014 manakala BH Ahad jatuh kepada 44,995 naskhah berbanding 156,835 naskhah pada tempoh yang sama. Utusan Malaysia dan Mingguan Malaysia mencatatkan kejatuhan yang lebih teruk iaitu masing-masing jualan sebanyak 171,663 naskhah dan 360,919 naskhah pada Januari 2014 kepada 97,393 dan 199,154 (2018) sebelum syarikat itu gulung tikar pada 9 Oktober 2019. Institut Kajian Kewartawanan Reuters melalui Laporan Berita Digital 2022 menyatakan, tiada satu pun akhbar bercetak jualannya meningkat dalam tempoh lima tahun (2017- 2022). Tiada kajian khusus dilakukan berkaitan punca fenomena kejatuhan akhbar bahasa Melayu secara domino ini. Hakikatnya kejatuhan jualan akhbar bahasa Melayu sudah pun berlaku secara perlahan-lahan dalam tempoh lebih 10 tahun kebelakangan ini. Hasil analisis kajian ini mendapati bahawa Internet adalah faktor utama kepada kemerosotan dan kejatuhan akhbar Utusan Malaysia, Kosmo!, Harian Metro dan Berita Harian sejak tahun 2014. Kejatuhan akhbar-akhbar ini memberikan impak yang sangat besar kepada ekonomi, penggunaan bahasa Melayu, pengaruh Islam, sosial dan politik serta kehilangan pekerjaan dalam kalangan pengamal media Syarikat terbabit. Trend ini dijangkakan berterusan dengan kepesatan IR4.0 dan rangkaian 5G yang diperluaskan ketika ini.

This research was conducted to measure the effectiveness of Peer Counseling Training towards the subjects’ self-concept, counseling skill and study orientation. Ninety Form Four students from one of the boarding school was selected as the subject for this study. They have been divided randomly into three groups namely Group A, B and C. This experimental research commences with a pre-test given to the subjects using Tennessee Self-concept Scale:2, Counseling Skill Test and Study Orientation Scale. The Group A subject had the Type A treatment (Peer Counseling Training + Practical Session) whereas Group B subject only attended the Peer Counseling Training (Type B Treatment). Group C serve as the control group. At the end of the research the subject was given with a post-test using the same three instruments during the pre-test. The MANOVA analysis conducted on the pre-test score shows that there’s no significant difference between Group A, B and C’s self-concept, counseling skill and study orientation. However, the MANCOVA analysis conducted upon the post-test shows that there’s significant difference (p=0.000; p<0.05) between Group A, B and C’s self-concept, counseling skill and study orientation. The findings from this research also shows that there’s significant difference for subjects’ self-concept, counseling skill and study orientation between Group A and B even though their training difference is only by a practical session. The researcher finds that the existence of peer counseling group in educational institution will be able to improvise the level of counseling management. At the same time, it enhances the students’ leadership as they change to be an effective role model to their peer and thus leads to successful Muslim generation. Keywords: Peer Counseling, Self-Concept, Counseling Skill

Introduction-Aims: In the modern days, traditional games have been perceived less preferred than universal games. This study examines the emotional reflection of Malaysians and Immigrants in Malaysia towards Malay traditional games and universal games. Malays (ethnic majority), Malaysian minorities (Chinese and Indian) and immigrants responded to the displayed images of Malay traditional games and universal games using a 9-point rating scale for valence domain of Self-Assessment Manikin. The emotional pleasantness towards Malay traditional games are higher in immigrants than Malaysians. There are emotional similarities between Malays and Malaysian minorities. Socio-cultural factors should be examined in future research to further understand this cultural situation. � 2020 Editura Universitatii din Oradea. All rights reserved.