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ENGINEERING STUDENTS PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT: A COMPARISON STUDY OF TWO PUBLIC HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTION IN MALAYSIA

This study was conducted to determine the congruency between the type of student personality and the type of environment area of specialization based on Holland’s Individual-Environmental Congruence Theory among engineering students of two universities in Malaysia. The subjects of this study were...

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Main Authors: Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus, Amir, Aris
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2012
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BF Psychology
Online Access:http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/4919/1/Edulearn12_Student_PE-Fit.pdf
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spelling my.utem.eprints.49192015-05-28T03:29:29Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/4919/ ENGINEERING STUDENTS PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT: A COMPARISON STUDY OF TWO PUBLIC HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTION IN MALAYSIA Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus Amir, Aris BF Psychology This study was conducted to determine the congruency between the type of student personality and the type of environment area of specialization based on Holland’s Individual-Environmental Congruence Theory among engineering students of two universities in Malaysia. The subjects of this study were 276 students who were selected using the purposive random sampling of engineering program students who enroll into business or entrepreneurship as their elective course. The instrument used in this study was the Holland’s Self-Directed Search (SDS). The finding of this study showed that there was no significant congruence between the type of student personality and their area of specialization. The finding of this study also showed that there was a significant difference in personality between male and female student of engineering program in one of the university, but there was no significant difference in personality between male and female student of engineering program in the other university. Generally the finding of the study showed that the engineering students had chosen the area of specialization that is not congruent to their personality. In view of the findings, several implications and recommendation were put forward. 2012-07-02 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/4919/1/Edulearn12_Student_PE-Fit.pdf Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus and Amir, Aris (2012) ENGINEERING STUDENTS PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT: A COMPARISON STUDY OF TWO PUBLIC HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTION IN MALAYSIA. In: EDULEARN12. 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies. International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2 - 4th july 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
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Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus
Amir, Aris
ENGINEERING STUDENTS PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT: A COMPARISON STUDY OF TWO PUBLIC HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTION IN MALAYSIA
description This study was conducted to determine the congruency between the type of student personality and the type of environment area of specialization based on Holland’s Individual-Environmental Congruence Theory among engineering students of two universities in Malaysia. The subjects of this study were 276 students who were selected using the purposive random sampling of engineering program students who enroll into business or entrepreneurship as their elective course. The instrument used in this study was the Holland’s Self-Directed Search (SDS). The finding of this study showed that there was no significant congruence between the type of student personality and their area of specialization. The finding of this study also showed that there was a significant difference in personality between male and female student of engineering program in one of the university, but there was no significant difference in personality between male and female student of engineering program in the other university. Generally the finding of the study showed that the engineering students had chosen the area of specialization that is not congruent to their personality. In view of the findings, several implications and recommendation were put forward.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus
Amir, Aris
author_facet Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus
Amir, Aris
author_sort Ahmad Rozelan, Yunus
title ENGINEERING STUDENTS PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT: A COMPARISON STUDY OF TWO PUBLIC HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTION IN MALAYSIA
title_short ENGINEERING STUDENTS PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT: A COMPARISON STUDY OF TWO PUBLIC HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTION IN MALAYSIA
title_full ENGINEERING STUDENTS PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT: A COMPARISON STUDY OF TWO PUBLIC HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTION IN MALAYSIA
title_fullStr ENGINEERING STUDENTS PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT: A COMPARISON STUDY OF TWO PUBLIC HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTION IN MALAYSIA
title_full_unstemmed ENGINEERING STUDENTS PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT: A COMPARISON STUDY OF TWO PUBLIC HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTION IN MALAYSIA
title_sort engineering students person-environment fit: a comparison study of two public higher learning institution in malaysia
publishDate 2012
url http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/4919/1/Edulearn12_Student_PE-Fit.pdf
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