Antecedent and mediators of life satisfaction among undergraduates in the Klang Valley, Malaysia
Higher education students, especially undergraduates who are in a transitional social period, face many confusions and challenges in their learning environment. Indeed, life stresses that undergraduates encounter can be overwhelming and can have a serious impact on their level of life satisfactio...
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/85792/1/FEM%202020%207%20-%20IR.pdf http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/85792/ |
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| Summary: | Higher education students, especially undergraduates who are in a transitional social
period, face many confusions and challenges in their learning environment. Indeed,
life stresses that undergraduates encounter can be overwhelming and can have a
serious impact on their level of life satisfaction. Life satisfaction is considered to be a
central aspect of students’ quality of life. It is the ultimate goal, and students strive to
achieve this goal throughout their learning life. Therefore, this research focused on
investigating the factors which can be used as predictors of life satisfaction among
undergraduate students in Klang Valley universities. This research aimed to identify
the relationship between emotional intelligence and life satisfaction, mediated by
attachment relationship, immediacy behaviour, interpersonal needs and interpersonal
attraction. This study applied Emotional Intelligence Model and PERMA Model as a
theoretical framework. About 600 Malaysian undergraduate students from Klang
Valley participated as respondent and this study chosen using a multistage cluster
sampling techniques. Data were gathered through survey questionnaire and analysed
using SPSS. Two types of data analyses were conducted. First, the descriptive analysis
is to identify the levels of all the related variables and second the inferential analysis
is performed using Chi-Square test, Pearson Correlation test, Independent T-test,
Binary Logistic Regression and Hayes Bootstrapping Mediation Analysis to test nine
hypothesis drawn from the research model. The findings indicate that student with
higher life satisfaction had a high level of emotional intelligence, attachment
relationship, immediacy behaviour, interpersonal attraction and interpersonal needs.
Furthermore, the logistic regression analysis indicated that attachment relationship of
peers and immediacy behaviour of lecturers are strongest predictors which associated
with life satisfaction among undergraduates. The bootstrapping analysis showed
immediacy behaviour, interpersonal needs and attachment relationship as the
significant mediators between emotional intelligence and life satisfaction. Finally, this
study confirmed all the predictors jointly explained 13% of the variance life
satisfaction. Based on these findings, the implication and recommendation for future investigation to the current theoretical framework and empirical findings that social
variables such as immediacy behaviour, attachment relationship and international
needs more influenced undergraduates’ life satisfaction compared emotional
intelligence in this research context. |
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