The Influence of Stream Selection with the Interest, Attitude and Perception of Form Three Students on Physics Subjects/ Pengaruh Pemilihan Aliran dengan Minat, Sikap Dan Persepsi Pelajar Tingkatan Tiga Terhadap Mata Pelajaran Fizik

The decline in the percentage of students into science streams and subsequently taking physics subjects is a critical issue in the country. This study aims to identify the level of interest, attitude, and perception of Form 3 students in learning Physics and the influence of these variables on the post Form 3 stream enrolment selection. A total of 112 students in the district of Johor Bahru responded to a set of questionnaires on students’ interests, attitudes, and perceptions towards physics. The validity and reliability of the instrument were analyzed using Rasch model analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were computed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 15.0 software to determine the means, standard deviations and t-test results. Results show that the level of students’ interest in Physics is moderate (mean = 3.52, SD = 0.64), while the level of students’ attitudes toward Physics is high (mean = 3.89, SD = 0.67) and the students' perceptions on the teaching and learning of Physics is also high (mean = 3.80, SD = 0.60). There are significant differences between the stream selection with interest, attitude, and perception on Physics (interest (t=5.135), attitude (t=4.798) and perception (t=3.664)). Therefore, the research findings show that these variables influence the Form 3 students' stream selection in Form 4. This shows that students' involvement in science and physics can reach a 60:40 ratio for science to non-science, with higher interest, positive attitudes and perceptions towards physics.

Exploring the Personal Factors of Homeless Ex-Prisoners Who Migrated Repeatedly to Kuala Lumpur from the Perspective of Migration Theory by Everett S. Lee/ Meneroka Faktor Peribadi Gelandangan Bekas Banduan Berhijrah Secara Berulang Kali ke Kuala Lumpur dari Perspektif Teori Migrasi oleh Everett S. Lee

The concentration of homeless ex-prisoners in the capital city raises personal choice factors for them to migrate repeatedly. Kuala Lumpur is the chosen destination for migration for ex-prisoners after their release from prison. The lack of place to go makes Kuala Lumpur a destination of choice despite living as a homeless person. This qualitative study uses a phenomenological approach involving 15 homeless ex-prisoners to explore the personal factors that led them to choose Kuala Lumpur and resigned to living on the streets. The personal factors identified were self-choice, finding job, having friends, easy access to food, migrating, and being familiar with Kuala Lumpur. The study's findings have confirmed the migration factors brought about by the Migration Theory by Everett S. Lee. This study recommends that the social services and welfare agencies involved, such as the Social Welfare Department, Kuala Lumpur City Hall, and the Prisons Department, to implement more comprehensive and consistent interventions towards assisting homeless ex-prisoners via necessary services, welfare, and appropriate social support.

Evaluation of Housing Quality in a Selected Urban Fringe of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Globally, a lot of research efforts have been put into investigating housing quality in urban areas, but little is known about housing situation in the urban fringes of developing nations. This article examines the factors influencing residents’ satisfaction with housing quality in Oke-Andi, an urban fringe in Kwara State, Nigeria. The research design for this study was quantitative in nature. Sampling was carried out at different stages during the field exercise. A preliminary survey of Oke-Andi in Ilorin through satellite imageries and reconnaissance revealed an approximate population of 593 buildings. From this, a 20% sample size, approximated to 120 buildings were randomly sampled and considered reasonable for the study. Using the housing quality criteria drawn from previous contextual studies, validated and pretested structured questionnaires were used to elicit data on respondents’ satisfaction with their dwelling unit, building unit, and neighbourhood quality. Information on residents’ socio-economic characteristics was also collected. From each selected building, a copy of the questionnaire was administered on the household heads or adult representatives. At the end of the survey, 120 questionnaires were administered, but only 100 were subsequently retrieved for data analysis. Simple frequency tables and Principal Component Analysis were used for the analysis of collected data. The result of PCA shows neighbourhood attributes, public utilities and building conditions as the factors influencing residents’ satisfaction with housing quality. The study recommends community driven urban renewal schemes for redevelopment, rehabilitation and upgrading of the quality of urban fringes.

A Model of Doctor-Patient Communication and Information Seeking a Study Among Trainee or Junior Doctors in Malaysian Hospital

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the doctors-patients communication style and their information seeking practiced among doctors under training or junior doctors in Malaysian hospital. Two types of communication styles evaluated are doctor centered and patient centered communication. Meanwhile, elements of information seeking practice evaluated are exploration of the reason for encounter, history taking, concrete solutions, structuring the interview, interpersonal skills and communicative skills. These six elements were categorized into interview skills and process skills. This information seeking skills have been derived from meta-analysis conducted by Stewart and Roter (1989). We combined the doctors-patients communication style and information seeking practice to develop a model based on four quadrants namely doctors-interview, doctors-process, patient-interview and patient-process. The subjects for this research are doctors under training or junior doctors in Malaysia. This explorative research distributed a set of questionnaires in order to collect data for analysis. The result show that the doctors under training or junior doctors tend to practice doctor-centered styles compare to patient-centered. Meanwhile, most of them demonstrate all the information seeking practice at a high level. Based on four quadrants developed by researcher, research shows that the doctors mostly categorized in doctor-centered communication style and interview information-seeking skills. We suggested that doctors should be more patient-oriented rather than doctor oriented. We also suggested the model that we developed can be used as a model of communication pattern of the doctors and can be used for future research.

Implementation of Learning Organization in School

The human resource development aspect is an important and significant element in ensuring a school organization to achieve and realize the vision and goals of the school organization. To ensure that school organizations respond appropriately, responsively and efficiently to all challenges and expectations in the 21st century, school organizations are required to implement transformation and transition into a genuine learning organization in order to survive and maintain their excellence. The current study aims to investigate the level of implementation of learning organization practices in school organization according to teachers' perceptions in Melaka Tengah District, Melaka. This study employed a quantitative research design. Using the instrument, Learning Organisation Practices Profile (LOPP), the study collected data from 500 teachers from thirteen school organization located in Melaka Tengah District, Melaka that is chosen based on cluster and simple random sampling. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) 25 for Windows was used to analyze the Learning Organization practices in the school organization. Based on the analysis of mean scores obtained from the twelve components contained in LOPP, it was found that the level of learning organization practice in the school organizations studied is at a high level. The most practiced components in the school organization studied are organizational climate, information flow and executive practices while the least practiced and need to be given more emphasis are the reward and recognition component, management practices and performance goals and feedback. The findings of this study show the importance of developing human resources by cultivating a culture of learning organization in school organizations.

Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) Approach and Sports Texts of the Postgraduate Students at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the scripts entitled ‘‘Sports’’ in terms of processes used and text type based on (Halliday, 1994) Systemic Functional Linguistic approach. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is looking into the syntactic structure of a clause based on six processes including material, mental and relational process (major category) and verbal, behavioral, and existential processes (minor category). Forty (40) students of the subject ‘Dynamics of Leadership’ at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia were assigned to write essays about ‘Sports’ in between 300—400 words within thirty (30) minutes and sixteen (16) essays were selected for the analysis. Researchers used mixed-method in order to analyze both quantitative (numerical) and qualitative (descriptive) data. All the collected essays were analyzed and then the percentage of all the six processes has been shown in descriptive statistics and interpreted in tabulations and bar graphs. The findings indicate that the dominant process used in all the scripts was material—doing and happening— and subsequently relational. Focusing more on nominalization, the analyzed manuscripts were found to be wordy.

Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Determinants of Entrepreneurship Career Inclination among Entrepreneurship Club Members in Secondary School/ Analisis Faktor Pengesahan Bagi Peramal Kecenderungan Kerjaya Keusahawanan dalam Kalangan Ahli Kelab Keusahawanan Sekolah Menengah

Entrepreneurship is a tool that the Malaysian Governmentsed to uplift income from the middle-income trap. Therefore, this study aims to identify the predictor factors that influence the inclination of entrepreneurship club members towards the entrepreneurship career by using factor analysis to achieve the Government goal through the Ministry of Education Malaysia. In other words, this study uses several tests related to validation factor analysis to determine the predictor factors that influence the propensity of entrepreneurship club members towards entrepreneurship careers. This study involved 161 respondents who were members of secondary school entrepreneurship clubs in the State of Terengganu who were randomly selected. Data gathered were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) involving factor analysis and descriptive test. The factor analysis has identified nine predictor factors. The first predictor factor is role model, followed by a barrier, social identity, personality, entrepreneurship skill, social norm, financial, entrepreneurship knowledge, and prosperity. Prosperity was the new predictor factor that was identified using factor analysis in this research. The descriptive test found that the most influenced predictor factor of the entrepreneurship career inclination was finance, followed by personality, social identification, role model, social norm, prosperity, and barrier. Meanwhile, entrepreneurship knowledge was found as a predictor factor which uncertain in influencing the entrepreneurship career inclination among secondary school entrepreneurship club members in the State of Terengganu. The results of this study imply that the Government should give financial factors the priority through the Ministry of Education in formulating policies towards producing more young generation of entrepreneurs in Malaysia because that predictor has a positive impact on secondary school students who were the members of entrepreneurship clubs.

Fear Of Success in Women Working with The Banyumas Cultural Approach

Indonesia has a variety of cultures in each region. Javanese culture in general namely konco wingking and the Banyumas culture which is one of the parts of Java, namely cablaka, it contributes to the development of women careers because there are contradictions between the two cultures. This systematic review aims to examine the fear of success in women working with the Banyumas cultural approach. The inclusion and exclusion criteria like data that used in 2009-2019 time frame, data obtained from the site https://scholar.google.co.id, the data that used is related to fear of success, cablaka, and Javanese women. Based on the results of the literature review, it is understood that fear of success is an obstacle to women career development because of the fear of negative results obtained (loss of femininity, loss of social self-esteem, and loss of social rejection). Women who experience fear of success blame the culture as a set of internal hope. Javanese women has culture, the name is konco wingking. It is a caste differentiate between women and men, where men have a higher position. Cablaka culture is a culture of the spontaneity of the Banyumas community towards everything that happens in plain sight without being covered up. The orientation of Banyumas cultural values shows that there are five Banyumas human relations with the meaning of life, work, time, nature, and fellow humans.

Supportive Expressive Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Client with Burst Fractures Frankle - C

This article presents a case study of a client with burst fracture frankle-C. This client also has generalized anxiety disorder. Supportive expressive therapy was used as therapeutic intervention. A burst fracture is a type of traumatic spinal injury in which a vertebra breaks from a high-energy axial load. The psychological problems often experienced by persons with body disabilities, such as burst fracture francle-C. This is a quantitative research with a single client. While collecting the data, used interview methods (autoanamnesa and alloanamnesa), observation, and psychological tests (DAP, BAUM, BAI, and Sack’s Sentence Completion Test). The result before the practitioner gives the Beck Anxiety Inventory, the client’s anxiety is 20 (moderate anxiety), after intervention 15 (mild anxiety), and follow up 11 (mild anxiety). In addition, the client is also better able to understand his condition and the problems being faced. The catharsis process that has happened so far makes the client able to express what he feels and thinks so as to make the client feel the perceived burden is reduced. Clients can begin to open up to family members at home and conduct simple chats when parents are at home to reduce the habit of repression that was previously done. The technique and also the process of the therapeutic process along the therapy session will be discussed in detail.

The Anxiety In Facing Retirement For Indonesian National Army Soldiers

The aim of this research is to discover the correlation between anxiety level of retirement and self-adaptation, social support, years of service and age on Indonesian National Army Soldiers at Kodim (Military District Command). This research used a quantitative research method carried out on 97 soldiers at Kodim. The sampling method used cluster random sampling. This research used three measurement scales. The anxiety of retirement scale consisted of 23 items with the coefficient correlation starts from 0.377-0.653 and a reliability coefficient of 0.723. The social support scale consisted of 29 items with a coefficient correlation starts from 0.369–0.775 and a reliability coefficient of 0.936. The self-adjustment scale consisted of 40 items with a coefficient correlation starts from 0.325-0.249 and a reliability coefficient of 0.959. There are five models to be analyzed in this study, using regression analysis of two predictors and partial correlation with the assistance of SPSS version 19.0. The results of the analysis of the model 1 (social support, adjustment and anxiety), model 2 (social support, adjustment, word period and anxiety), model 3 (social support, adjustment, age and anxiety) and model 4 (social support, adjustment, age, years of service and anxiety) show a significant correlation between all variables tested. Hypothesis 1 to 4 are accepted. Meanwhile, the result of the hypothesis model 5 (years of service, age and anxiety) shows that there is no correlation between all variables tested. Fifth hypothesis is rejected.