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Does psychological strengths and subjective well-being predicting parental involvement and problem solving among Malaysian and Indian students?

The present study examined the predictors of psychological strengths and subjective well-being for dealing with academic stress perceived by university engineering students. Sample of 400 Malaysian (N = 180 boys and N = 220 girls) age varies 18 to 25 years and 400 Indian students (N = 240 boys and N...

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Autores principales: Khan, Aqeel, Ahmad, Roslee, Hamdan, Abdul Rahim, Mustaffa, Mohamed Sharif, Tahir, Lokman Mohd
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25674482
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-756
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author Khan, Aqeel
Ahmad, Roslee
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description The present study examined the predictors of psychological strengths and subjective well-being for dealing with academic stress perceived by university engineering students. Sample of 400 Malaysian (N = 180 boys and N = 220 girls) age varies 18 to 25 years and 400 Indian students (N = 240 boys and N = 160 girls) age varies 18 to 25 years from public universities were participated. Quantitative method was used for data analysis. Findings shows that gender, religiosity and socioeconomic status are significantly influencing psychological strengths and subjective well-being of both Indian and Malaysian students. Findings also revealed that parental involvement and problem solving coping styles were significantly predicting psychological strengths and subjective well-being among both countries participants. Findings of the current study provide the insight for the educators, and parents dealing with adolescents.
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spelling pubmed-43202332015-02-11 Does psychological strengths and subjective well-being predicting parental involvement and problem solving among Malaysian and Indian students? Khan, Aqeel Ahmad, Roslee Hamdan, Abdul Rahim Mustaffa, Mohamed Sharif Tahir, Lokman Mohd Springerplus Research The present study examined the predictors of psychological strengths and subjective well-being for dealing with academic stress perceived by university engineering students. Sample of 400 Malaysian (N = 180 boys and N = 220 girls) age varies 18 to 25 years and 400 Indian students (N = 240 boys and N = 160 girls) age varies 18 to 25 years from public universities were participated. Quantitative method was used for data analysis. Findings shows that gender, religiosity and socioeconomic status are significantly influencing psychological strengths and subjective well-being of both Indian and Malaysian students. Findings also revealed that parental involvement and problem solving coping styles were significantly predicting psychological strengths and subjective well-being among both countries participants. Findings of the current study provide the insight for the educators, and parents dealing with adolescents. Springer International Publishing 2014-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4320233/ /pubmed/25674482 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-756 Text en © Khan et al.; licensee Springer. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
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title_fullStr Does psychological strengths and subjective well-being predicting parental involvement and problem solving among Malaysian and Indian students?
title_full_unstemmed Does psychological strengths and subjective well-being predicting parental involvement and problem solving among Malaysian and Indian students?
title_short Does psychological strengths and subjective well-being predicting parental involvement and problem solving among Malaysian and Indian students?
title_sort does psychological strengths and subjective well-being predicting parental involvement and problem solving among malaysian and indian students?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4320233/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-756
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