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This paper will discuss the findings of a study that has been conducted to explore the challenges of women with physical disabilities (OKU) in entrepreneurship. The scope of the exploration involves the start-up phase of the business which requires the informant to tell the experience of facing initial challenges in the business. The study was designed using a fully qualitative approach with data collection using the Focus Group Discussion method. The study location involves four Malaysian zones, namely the North, East, Central and South zones. A total of 34 physically disabled women who are traders were selected to be interviewed. The selection of informants was made purposefully by choosing the recipients of the Malaysian Social Welfare Department's launch grant. The thematic analysis carried out shows that there are three main challenges faced by informants during the phase of starting a business, namely: i- lack of access to information, ii- implications of physical disability and iii- dual role challenges. The results of the study give implications to stakeholders' efforts to improve the achievement of empowering women with physical disabilities in starting a business. In addition, this paper also discusses the scientific justification for the proposal for the construction of the Economic Empowerment Model (Entrepreneurship) for Physically Disabled Women as an output of this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19 pandemic is a public health issue. From 2019 to 2022, 4.5 million people died from the COVID-19 epidemic. Consequently, COVID-19 has put a significant strain on every single creature in this world. COVID-19 has been associated with lockdown, thus resulting in lockdown related inequities towards most people in this world, with unanticipated consequences for people with disabilities. Building in this debate, this paper aimed to discuss on the impacts of COVID-19 on the physical health of People with Intellectual Disabilities. Based on the Prisma protocol, this systematic literature review examined 28 publications from Web Sources of Science and Scopus.The study identified three themes regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the physical environment of people with intellectual disabilities namely mental health, social isolation, severe health problems, socioeconomic and psychology. This study has significant implications in understanding how PWID are impacted by COVID 19 and urged that early preventative measures should be taken since People with Intellectual Disabilities are considered a vulnerable population, therefore it is crucial to ensure that their health status are sustained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stereotype by the netizens have been outrageous towards those young adult fans who openly shared their interest in celebrities, for instance, BTS thus it leads them on being the victims of cyberbullying. BTS' positive messages have been nothing but an influence in their fans' life regarding on their self-esteem and psychological well-being. Therefore, this research was conducted to study the relationship between the experience of cyberbullying behaviour and self-esteem with psychological wellbeing among BTS' young adult fans in Malaysia and to see fans' attitude as potential mediator in this relationship. The respondents of this research were consist of 397 young adults and the questionnaire were distributed using the purposive and snowball sampling technique. The results of this research showed that there is no significant relationship between the experience of cyberbullying behaviour and psychological well-being whereas there is a positive significant relationship between self-esteem and psychological wellbeing. Fans' attitude proven that it has a role as a mediator in the relationship between self-esteem and psychological well-being. Some suggestions were proposed to improve the quality of the future research such as the study will be conducted longitudinally using the interview and observation research techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Parenting style and peer pressure are one of the important elements for adolescents. However, there are increment in the number of adolescents involved that with smoking behavior. The purpose of this study was to identify the main causes and predictors of the smoking behavior especially among adolescents. The parenting style and peer influence were used as the independent variables for this at-risk behaviors. This study was a cross-sectional study. A total of 197 respondents were selected from Form 6 students at several Form 6 centers in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. The majority of the respondents were male, of whom 122 were (61.9%) and 75 (38.1%) were female and were involved in cigarette use. The study used Parental Authority Questionnaire, Questionnaire-Revised Peer Pressure and Smoking Urge-Brief that have been translated into Malay language to measure all the variables that exist in the study. Questionnaire was distribute using online method by Google Form software and Whats-app applications. The results show that there is a significant relationship between parenting style and peer influence on cigarette use among adolescents. In addition, this study also found that there were differences in the level of use of cigarettes by gender and that there were differences in parenting style by gender. Therefore, parenting style and peer influence play an important role in adolescent involvement with smoking behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Toilet training is important for children's development so that they are always in a comfortable, dry and clean state. Educating children to urinate and defecate becomes effective if training is done early. This study used a quasi-experimental design. A total of 60 respondents consisted of two groups 30 children received toilet training and 30 children did not receive toilet training among parents and preschool children at Persatuan Tadika Islam Malaysia. The results of the study found that there was a significant difference between parents' knowledge of children's toilet training and there was a significant difference between toilet training on the adaptive behaviour developments of preschool children. The results of this study explained the effect of toilet training on the development of adaptive behaviour of preschool children as well as differences in the level of knowledge of parents about toilet training on children's toilet training practices. This study adds to the theoretical findings on the influence of parental behaviour on child development in describing in detail and better about the level of parental knowledge of toilet training and the development of adaptive behaviour of children. Parents especially need to know critically about children's developmental needs better and support from the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia can help prospective couples to gain knowledge of parenting through marriage courses conducted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The marital quality has been studied for decades and yet the finding still varied due to individual realistic or idealistic expectation and demand. However, the first 10 years of marriage is seen as the most challenging fase as coping and adjustment to the newly marriagelife are much needed by both couples. Therefore, this article is aimed to study the effect of communication style and life-adjustment on marital quality among couples between one to 10 years of marriage. A total of 340 respondents age between 20 to 40 years old were recruited for the study. Respondents were given a set of questionnaire comprised of demographic information, marital quality scale, communication style scale, and life-adjustment scale. Based on the multiple regression results, both communication style and life-adjustment are significant predictors of marital quality among young couples (1-10 years of marriage) in Malaysia. Both predictors contribute to a high total variance of marital quality. As a conclusion, the communication style and life adjustment could be the pivotal elements in securing and maintaining the marriage in a long term run. These two predictors can also be proposed as a post-marriage module for couples less than 10 years of marriage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews the quality and characteristics of the physical environment upon children's holistic development. Since children are primarily a large consumer of their physical environment, it is thus important to understand how the role of these physical structures and facilities influence their cognitive, emotional, social, physical development and behaviours. However, most of their needs are often ignored by relevant dominant groups, especially in planning and renewal processes of nature or built environments. Children's usage of their physical environment does not only confine to the home, school, home yard or playground, but also the neighbourhood at large that can undoubtedly sustain or deprive their development. Researchers from the disciplines of developmental psychology and environmental sciences have tried to examine the effects and impact of the physical environment on children's overall development. However, the studies present a major challenge due to scant empirical research that links the quality of the physical setting and human development. Research findings are however still conflicting in these areas and one needs to explore further to substantiate the previous findings. The theories proposed by Ulric Neisser (1980) and Jean Piaget (1971) stressed on the independent mobility for the development of cognitive representations in children as users of the physical environment. However, the theories failed to look at the role of the environment as a cyclic process. On the contrary, a theory proposed by J.J. Gibson (1977) offered a psychologically significant approach to estimate the qualities of different environmental properties. In this paper, the researchers will also focus on the risks factors pertaining to the environmental stressors such as outdoor children's play behaviour, school performance setting, mental health, traffic and road safety, social relations and physical health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A gender role is relatively mirrored by cultural expectations on both males and females. This expectation leads to gender stereotyping, which defines as masculinity and femininity. However, the dimension of gender role requires current description of what is known as masculine and feminine in the global era and gender role has been rapidly altered since the globalization. The purpose of the pilot study is to examine the variances of gender role development among PDRM officers in Negeri Sembilan. A total of 77 participants involved in the pilot study which included 37 males and 40 females. A convenience sampling had been selected for the pilot study. Four hypotheses had been formed in relation to the pilot study, which are the following: i) there are differences of gender role between males and females, ii) there are differences of gender role among ethnic groups, iii) there are differences of gender role in developmental stages, and iv) there are differences of gender role among individuals of different marital status. The result shows that there are significant gender role differences between males and females with t (75) = 2.539, p<.05. Thus, hypothesis 1 is accepted. However, the other three hypotheses were rejected due to insignificant results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]