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  title info:
    title: Interactions among environment, achivement, behaviour and personal attributes of Malaysian secondary school boys
    sub title: a structural equation modeling study
  name:
    name part: Jamilah Jaafar
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: International Islamic University Malaysia
    name part: Institute of Education
  genre: Theses, IIUM local
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    date issued: 2012
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    extent: xvi, 240 leaves : ill. ; 30cm.
  abstract: While most efforts related to gender equity in education focus on improving girls' access to quality education, boys' underachievement in education is a matter of urgent concern. In Malaysia, for example, boys are lagging behind their female counterparts in national examinations, enrollment in higher education and all other positive outcomes of schooling. Using Urie Bronfenbrem1er's Ecological System Theory and Albert Bandura' s Social Cognitive Theories, this study investigates factors affecting boys' academic achievement, personality attributes and behaviour. It specifically examines how environmental actors (namely parental support, teacher .effectiveness and peer relationships) contributed to boys' academic achievement through influencing their risk-taking behaviours and positive behaviours in school (school engagement) as well as their religiosity and masculinity. The study employs both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection. In the qualitative phase, which involved focus-group interviews as well as in-depth interviews with students and teachers in selected schools, seven themes emerged related to the factors influencing boys' development. Based on the qualitative findings, an instrument was constructed and validated for use in the final quantitative study. In the final quantitative study, clustered stratified sampling was employed to select a sample of 1844 boys from secondary schools from various states in Peninsular Malaysia. Structural Equation Modeling was employed for Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CF A) and for testing the Structural Model to identify direct and reciprocal relationships. The findings revealed that environment has strong effects on religiosity and positive behaviour in school, moderate effects on masculinity and achievement, and negative moderate effects on risky behaviour. Positive behaviour, masculinity and religiosity weakly effect achievement. The findings also revealed that religiosity has moderate effects on masculin…
  note: by Jamilah Jaafar
  note: Abstracts in English and Arabic.
  note: " A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education."--On t.p.
  note: Thesis (Ph.D)--International Islamic University Malaysia, 2012.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 222-236).
  subject:
    geographic code: a-my---
  identifier: http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/3917
  record info:
    record content source: UIAM
    record creation date: 121001
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng