Persepsi Guru Terhadap Profesion Perguruan Masa Kini: Satu Tinjauan Di Tiga Buah Sekolah Di Daerah Pasir Mas, Kelantan

Sejak kebelakangan ini, profesion perguruan ditimpa pelbagai masalah dan perkara yang negatif. Tidak kiralah mengenai sistem pengurusannya atau mengenai guru itu sendiri. Persoalannya, mungkinkah fenomena ini memberi kesan yang negatif atau sebaliknya ke atas tanggapan guru yang sememangnya terlibat secara langsung dalam profesion perguruan. Untuk itu, satu kajian tinjauan telah dijalankan dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui persepsi guru itu sendiri terhadap profesion perguruan masa kini. Seramai 100 orang responden yang terdiri daripada guru yang mengajar di tiga buah sekolah menengah di daerah Pasir Mas dijadikan sampel kajian. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam kajian ini ialah soal selidik. Keputusan kajian mendapati bahawa guru - guru memandang tinggi akan profesion perguruan pada masa kini dari segi komitmen tugas, dan sumbangan yang telah di berikan. Tetapi guru menganggap bahawa beban tugas guru kini semakin bertambah. PENGENALAN Profesion perguruan adalah bidang yang memberi perkhidmatan yang unik., tetap dan diperlukan oleh masyarakat. Keunikannya hanya akan dirasai dan diketahui oleh mereka yang terlibat dalam profesion ini. Hanya warga profesion perguruan sahaja yang berkemampuan memberi perkhidmatan pendidikan terbaik kepada masyarakat yang mana memberi kesan yang besar terhadap perkembangan personaliti, mental dan fizikal setiap insan (Noran Fauziah dan Ahmad Mahdzan, 1993)

Marital Psycho-Spiritual Intervention (MP-SI): An intervention for blessing marriage relationships

This article presents the Marital Psycho-Spiritual Intervention (MP-SI), which provides the married couples and helping professionals with knowledge and skills for strengthening marriage relationships. MP-SI is an intervention that specifically developed to help Muslim married couples build a close relationship with Allah SWT, with themselves, and with their respective couples. This intervention is a structured format. In each session, the participants are exposed to the knowledge of Islamic marriage. The content of this intervention takes into account the content of the Holy Quran on man’s creation, which consisted of four important elements, nafs (soul), aql (intellect), qalb (heart), and ruh (spirit). The participants are exposed to effective communication skills, worked as teams to resolve problems, managed conflicts without decreasing closeness, preserved, and enhanced attachment through communication elements, conflict resolutions, forgiveness, sakinah (tranquility), mawaddah (love with passion), and rahmah (mercy). This intervention may be applied in counseling, relationship education, and couples’ workshops

Effects of psychoeducational group on Muslim spouses’ communication

Statistics released by Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM) shows that the marital conflict and divorce rates among Muslim increases every year. There are a range of factors associated with marital conflict and divorce. In present study communication is highlighted as the factor that contribute to marital conflict and divorce among Muslim spouses. In an effort to help spouses manage and overcome marital conflicts, Muslim spouses need for an Islamic base according to the religious perspective. For that purposes this article is an attempt to examine the effects of psychoeducational group known as Marital Psycho-Spiritual Intervention (MP-SI) on communication among Muslim husbands and wives at Felda in Kedah. A psychoeducational group is a systematic effort to help improve the functioning of Muslim spouses’ communication through education and preventative means which widely used in guidance and counseling services. It is a group approach conducted by marriage counselors to educate and disseminating knowledge and skills related to marriage relationships. The randomized controlled trials (randomized control group design with pretest, posttest and follow up test) was used in this study. The experimental and control group of this study was totally composed of 76 participants, 38 in experimental group and 38 in control group. Participants in experimental group received a treatment of MP-SI for 6 weeks (2 hours per week). Marital Communication Inventory (MCI) was utilized to obtain the data for communication in three times (pretest, posttest, and follow up). A Mixed Between-Within Subjects ANOVA was used to see the differences between the mean scores of pretest, posttest, and follow up test within both experimental and control group. The results from mixed between-within subjects ANOVA showed that there were a statistically significant main effect of time and group for communication. Participants in the experimental group showed improvement in communication compared to the control group over the three time periods. These findings demonstrated the MP-SI conducted in this study had a higher impact on the experimental group and the effect was similar on the male and female participants. These results reveal valuable information that an Islamic psycho-spiritual approach that emphasizes the spiritual practices and element of nafs (soul), aql (intellect), qalb (heart), and ruh (spirit) help improve Muslim spouses’ communication

The relationship between lecturers’ paralanguage and students’ satisfaction in Universiti Teknologi Mara, Kedah, Malaysia / Rosliza Md. Zani...[et. al.]

Satisfaction among students has become an essence particularly in an education industry. The industry is growing rapidly and competition is intense. Every organization is trying to become the most preferred education provider, especially in Malaysia and communication is the most important element to be stressed on to ensure students‟ sat-isfaction on services provided. Past researches indicated that, most meaning of conversational messages comes from non-verbal communication. Evaluation on students‟ perception on lecturers‟ paralanguage that would lead to their satisfaction to the services provided was examined. The results of the study illustrated that paralanguage which include vocal pitch, vocal loudness, pitch variation, pauses and fluency were shown to have an impact on students‟ satisfaction. Therefore, from this study, it can be inferred that students‟ in Malaysian universities are mostly observant on the vocal pitch of their lecturers when lectures are delivered to them. The present study caters for a wide variety of students and development professionals, especially those who are interested in non-verbal communication specifically paralanguage-related issues. It is highly hoped that the information gleaned from the present study may assist all service employees specifically in understanding better, the importance of paralanguage and its effects on students‟ satisfaction

Effect of Ramadan environment on Fagerstrom Test For Nicotine Dependence (FTND) among smokers

Background: Measurement of the nicotine dependence of the smokers can become valuable information in understanding the smoker’s level of addiction. One of the methods in measuring the nicotine dependence is by using the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND). Understanding the accurate level of addiction level can help in the process of developing approach for smoking cessation. Approaches for smoking cessation intervention can be found during Ramadan where every Muslim is obligated to fast. Ramadan environment can provide a supportive environment for the smokers in smoking cessation. Materials and Methods: A total of 61 male smokers who currently smoke cigarette on daily basis were recruited. The study used the time-series experimental study design to evaluate the effect of Ramadan environment on FTND among a group of smokers who work at a local authority in Selangor. The data were collected three times which were one week before Ramadan, 21st of Ramadan and 21 days after Ramadan. The FTND questionnaire used in this study was already translated into Bahasa Malaysia and validated from previous study. Data analysis was conducted by using repeated measure One-way ANOVA and paired t-test. Result: The study showed a significant difference in the FTND score from before, during and after Ramadan (p = 0.003). From the post-hoc test, there is a significant decrease in the FTND score from before Ramadan to during Ramadan and also from before Ramadan to one month after Ramadan (p = 0.001, p = 0.002). Conclusion: The positive environment during Ramadan has helped to reduce the FTND score of the smokers. Health care professional should use this opportunity to help the smoker to quit smoking

Total quality management in the health-care context: integrating the literature and directing future research

Background: Synergistic integration of predictors and elements that determine the success of total quality management (TQM) implementations in hospitals has been the bane of theoretical development in the TQM research area. Thus, this paper aims to offer a systematic literature review to provide a foundation on which research on TQM can be built and to identify the predictors of successful TQM in the health-care context. Materials and methods: A systematic literature survey was adopted in this paper, involving the review of 25 relevant researched articles found in the databases Science Direct, EBSCO, MEDLINE, CINAHL and PubMed. Result: The systematic literature survey reveals five variables to be core predictors of TQM, signifying how important these variables are in the successful implementation of TQM in the health-care context. Also, it is revealed that the identified core predictors have positive effects on an improved health-care system. However, the systematic survey of the literature reveals a dearth of studies on TQM in the health-care context. Conclusion: As TQM has become an important management approach for advancing effectiveness in the health-care sector, this kind of research is of value to researchers and managers. Stakeholders in the health sectors should introduce and implement TQM in hospitals and clinics. Nevertheless, this study has limitations, including that the databases and search engines adopted for the literature search are not exhaustive

Factors affecting willingness to pay for community based health insurance among secondary school teachers of Katsina State, Nigeria

Introduction: Universal health coverage is a major challenge in Nigeria where out of pocket payments still dominates health care financing. The community based health insurance scheme was introduced in Nigeria through the National health insurance scheme as an alternative means of financing health care especially for the rural poor and low income earners. The objective of this study is to assess the willingness of secondary school teachers of Katsina Local Government Area to pay for this community based insurance scheme. Methodology: This is cross-sectional study was conducted among secondary school teachers of Katsina local government area of Katsina State using cluster random sampling technique. A self-administered questionnaire which consisted of the Contingent Valuation method for evaluating the WTP for the community based health insurance scheme was used in this study. Results: The response rate was 88.4%. The mean age of the respondent’s was 36.32±7.58 years. More than 62% of the respondents were males, almost half of the respondents 44.1% (n=208) have a family size of 6 to 10 family members. Mean monthly income of respondents was ₦39,192.03± ₦10,900.99. The results indicated that minimum amount the respondents were willing to pay was ₦200 and the maximum was ₦5000. The predictors of willing to pay for the CBHI were ages 41 to 50 years (AOR=0.313; 95%CI: 0.149-0.655), 51 to 60 years (AOR=119; 95%CI: 0.039-0.366) and recent illness encountered (AOR=24.954; 95%CI: 7.581-82.135). Conclusion: In conclusion, our study findings suggest that majority of the respondents were willing to enrol and pay for the CBHI scheme and to pay an average of ₦1585 per month

The portrayal of women in persuasive advertisement : semiotic analysis of Deeja cosmetic TV commercial

The purpose of advertising is to effectively promote items or services so that people will buy them. Repetition of viewing to the advertisement for the desired product strengthens purchasing habits. However, advertisements frequently contain sexual and objectification of women. This study aims to analyse the ethical decision-making that occurs due to the information presented using the micro and macro text of beauty product commercials. Thus, this study employs a social semiotics model to comprehend emotional strategies and contentious images by examining the process, effects, and consequence of ethical judgment; they function as mechanisms for propagating specific social culture and ethical values. Despite several past research studies attempting to discover beauty products' ideology using social semiotic analysis, no significant progress has been made to explore the studies on local beauty products. Therefore, a semiotic analysis will be used to obtain the data, as it is the most effective way of comprehending how meaning is produced in text. This research exclusively focuses on how Deeja Cosmetic advertisements employ female portrayal and the specific creative strategies the advertisers utilise to persuade and control their customers. From the analysis, women were presented inferiorly relative to their personalities and roles. At the same time, the findings indicate advertisers portray women as an object of desire to persuade the audience for the brand recall

Assessing normative and informational influences on students’ opinion in engaging electronic word of mouth via social networking sites

This study examines the effects of normative and informational influences on students’ opinion seeking, opinion giving and opinion passing while engaged in electronic word of mouth (eWOM) via social networking sites (SNS). A quantitative method was applied to test the hypotheses, which included the development of a self-administered, structured questionnaire distributed using the convenience sampling technique among 250 students at public institutions of higher learning in the Federal Territory of Labuan, Malaysia. Empirical results obtained using the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach show that the relationship between normative influence and users’ opinion seeking, opinion giving and opinion passing while engaged in eWOM via SNS is a consistent one. Similarly, users’ opinion seeking and opinion asking are also affected by informational influence. Direction for future research is also presented