Influences Of Peers On Tobacco Use And Academic Motivation In Lower Secondary School Students In Pasir Mas, Kelantan
Teachers are the main assets and catalysts of the struggle, and it is critical to develop critical and creative thinking to shape and prepare students to adapt to the changes around them. Considering the increasingly difficult teaching profession, various disciplinary issues and student misbehaviour...
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| Summary: | Teachers are the main assets and catalysts of the struggle, and it is critical to develop critical and creative thinking to shape and prepare students to adapt to the changes around them. Considering the increasingly difficult teaching profession, various disciplinary issues and student misbehaviour, this necessitates much thought and solid cooperation from all teachers. As a result, this study aims to determine peers' impact on tobacco use and motivation among high school students in Pasir Mas, Kelantan. 392 students from 18 secondary schools in the Pasir Mas district were chosen using the cluster random sampling method. A pilot study was conducted to assess the questionnaire's reliability and appropriateness. Cronbach's Alpha is used to assess the questionnaire's reliability. Cronbach's alpha reliability values are 0.718 and 0.916 for the entire questionnaire. The peer influence questionnaire was adapted from two inventories: the peer inventory by Armsden and Greenberg (1987) adapted from Siti Raba'ah Hamzah et al. (2013) and the peer pressure, popularity, and conformity inventory by Santor, Messervey, and Kusumakar (2000) adapted by Nor Jumawaton Shahruddin et al. (2017). Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, and mean were used to analyse the level of peer influence on tobacco use and the academic level of motivation among students. Furthermore, inferential statistics, specifically the t-test, were used to examine the difference between peer influence on tobacco use and the academic level of motivation among respondents based on gender. A one-way ANOVA test was used to determine the difference in peer influence on tobacco use and academic motivation based on the student's socioeconomic status. Pearson's correlation was used at a significant level of 0.05 to analyse the relationship between peer influence on tobacco use and academic level of motivation according to gender. According to this study's findings, peers' influence on tobacco use is most prevalent among female students and students from low socioeconomic status. Furthermore, t-test analysis reveals that there is no significant difference between the influence of peers on tobacco use and students' academic motivation. The Anova test revealed no significant difference between the influence of peers on tobacco use and student academic motivation. According to Pearson's correlation analysis, there is no significant relationship between peer influence on tobacco use and the academic level of student motivation. As a result, several suggestions have been made to increase students' academic motivation to improve their academic achievement, as well as preventive measures to combat the problem of smoking among school students. |
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