Factors that Influenced the Problem of Truancy among Secondary School Students
Journal Title: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 3
Abstract
This study aims to identify the factors that influenced truancy among the students in Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) in a secondary school in Pahang. This study was conducted on 200 respondents consisting of 52 students from Form One, 118 students from Form Two and 30 students from Form Four. These respondents have truancy records that have been identified by the school administrators. The respondents’ gender have been selected randomly. The researcher had used the method of observing using the technique of questionnaires. In this research, the researcher also used descriptive statistics to find the mean in the contributing factors and T-Test for Independent Samples Test for the gender differences. The factors that need to be observed are from the respondents themselves, socioeconomic factors, peer influence and school environmental factors which is the attitude of teachers that influence and contribute to truancy. Peer influence is seen as the most dominant factor with the mean = 2.0349, followed by socio-economic factors with the mean = 1.0830, next is the school environmental factors that which is the attitude of the teacher that leads to truancy with the mean = 0.2440 and finally the respondents’ self factors with the mean = 0.0947 that lead to the truancy in the school.
Authors and Affiliations
Muhammad Azmi Abdullah, Syed Sofian Syed Salim, Mohammad Aziz Shah Mohamed Arip
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- EP ID EP560570
- DOI 10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i3/3934
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