STUDENT’S RECEPTION OF NOVEL “NEGERI LIMA MENARA” FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE

This research dealt with the students’ reception on the intellectual and emotional domain of novel which entitled “Negeri Lima Menara” from gender perspective. The objectives of this study were: (1) to investigate students’ reception of the novel at the intellectual aspect from gender perspective. (2) to investigate students reception of the novel at the emotional aspect from gender perspective. The data were obtained from questionnaire and the source of data were 32 students 16 male and 16 female from two classes students at second semester of language and arts faculty at state university of Medan, By applying purposive sampling. The research design of this study applied descriptive qualitative. The data were collected by administering questionnaire. The results of data analysis in general were (1) Male students were more good reception in both intellectual domain and emotional domain. Furthermore, the points of intellectual domain (respectively-%) were Structure 40.625%, Language 43.75%, Theme 50%, Tempo 15.625%, and the points of emotional domain (respectively-%) were Interest 43.75%, Authenticity 34.375%, the ability to belief 40.625% contained on the novel.However, female students’ was higher in 2 points both in intellectual domain and emotional domain. Furthermore, the two points of intellectual domain (respectively-%) were Characterization 50%, Plot 43.75% and the 2 points of emotional domain (respectively-%) Involvement 46.875%, Joy 43.75% contained on the novel. On the other hand both male and female have an equal point of emotional domain (respectively-%) they were Emotion 43.75%, but male had high score than female, male score 65 meanwhile female score 63 at the emotion point of emotional domain. Implication: male is more rationally meanwhile female is more emotionally. Keywords: students’ reception, intelectual, emotional domain, gender’s perspective.

Well-Being Assessment of Youth in Urban Marginalized Community

This paper examines the well-being of eight domains of youth in the marginalized urban community. Study area was at Low Cost Housing Project of Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur. Four hundred of youth age between 15 – 25 years old has been selected by stratified sampling. The average of well-being score is intermediate for the whole sample. However, the male score is slightly higher compared to female. Moral values show the highest score whilst participation in the community shows the lowest score for both male and female. As a conclusion, there is intermediate score of well-being of youth in the urban marginalized community.© 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.Keywords: Well-being; marginalized; community; youth

Well-Being Assessment of Youth in Urban Marginalized Community

This paper examines the well-being of eight domains of youth in the marginalized urban community. Study area was at Low Cost Housing Project of Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur. Four hundred of youth age between 15 – 25 years old has been selected by stratified sampling. The average of well-being score is intermediate for the whole sample. However, the male score is slightly higher compared to female. Moral values show the highest score whilst participation in the community shows the lowest score for both male and female. As a conclusion, there is intermediate score of well-being of youth in the urban marginalized community.© 2016.The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.Keywords: Well-being; marginalized; community; youth

Treatment of hypertension in young men

Objective. To assess effi ciency of in hypertensive men capable of working. Design. Clinical study and instrumental (Ageing Male Score, AMS) examination were performed in 15 hypertensive men aged 32,8 ± 6,9 years old. Results and conclusions. Target blood pressure was achieved in 14 hypertensive men treated with eprosartan 600 mg/hydrochlorthiazide 12,5 mg during six month. Moreover, this therapy was associated with a signifi cant increase of normotonic reaction rate at physical load during veloergometry, and a signifi cant reduction in symptoms of androgen defi cit assessed by AMS in men.

Interpretable and Noninterpretable Female-Male Score Differences on Selected Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory Occupational Scales

This study classified the differences between scores based on female norms (same-sex scores) and scores based on male norms (other-sex scores) on 12 Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory Occupational Scales in a sample of 87 college women. The same- and other-sex score differences were classified as interpretable (of practical use in guidance) if one score indicated interests similar to those of persons working in the occupation and the other score indicated interests dissimilar to those persons' interests. The score differences were classified as noninterpretable if both scores indicated similar interests or both scores indicated dissimilar interests. There were 224 interpretable score differences on the 12 scales and 820 noninterpretable score differences. These findings were related to the practice of interpreting other-sex scores on Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory Occupational Scales.

Self-Esteem and Social-Personal Orientation of Indian 12- and 18-Year-Olds

Measures of self-ideal congruence and of social-personal orientation were obtained in Delhi from groups of 50 Indian males and females of about age 12 and age 18, predominantly of socio-economic Class I. These data were compared with longitudinal American data obtained by Carlson. Among the preadolescents, the average self-ideal congruence score for the Indian girls was highest, followed by Indian boys, American girls and boys. Only the differences involving the Indian girls were statistically significant. At age 18 the average female congruence score was insignificantly above the average male score. In social-personal orientation, over half of the Indian preadolescent and adolescent girls were socially oriented. About one quarter of the Indian preadolescent boys were socially oriented; almost half of the older boys were. In contrast, the American girls had changed from one quarter socially oriented to over one-half; the American boys had changed from almost one-half to approximately one-eighth.