Abstract-This study explores the relationship between social support, negative affectivity, and work-personal life balance among academic staff. The sample of this study comprised 70 academics at one faculty in one public higher educational institution in Perak, Malaysia. Quantitative research design using survey questionnaires was utilized for this study. Findings indicated that work-personal life balance is significantly related with social support and negative affectivity. In addition, social support from co-workers is the most significant predictor for work-personal life balance.
Abstract-The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between job stress and job performance of front-liners in a shared service center, Malaysia. The conceptual framework of this study is based on the model of Job Stress (role ambiguity, role conflict, inadequate resources, and workload) and the concept of job performance. A total of 113 front-liners from various departments in a shared service center were selected as respondents through convenience sampling technique. Findings indicated that job stress was significantly related to job performance.
The widespread use of smartphones and online text messages for communication has influenced and changed the everyday lives of its users. Undoubtedly, smartphones can enhance and advance our working life and personal life to suit modern lifestyles. However, some of the smartphone users show overdependence on the smartphone’s applications especially on mobile communications to share and receive immediate information either for their work or personal related matters. ‘Text-messagedependency’ is a term used to refer to these users who use and rely so much on text messaging applications. This obsessive use of mobile communications can lead to numerous psychological and behavioural symptoms such as problematic addictions, obsessions, health risks and also producenegative social outcomes.The research concentrates to study the factors that contribute to text-message dependency and psychological or behavioural symptoms from the perspective of self-perception theory. The research is significant and important for the society and national development in several aspects; 1) educate the society about the risks of smartphone addiction, 2) provide guidelines and insight to the ministry of health and multimedia development, and 3) give awareness to the application developers on the future demand of smartphone applications that relates tobehaviour control.
Digital addiction has been called digital dependency and digital compulsivity. By any name, it is a compulsive behaviour that completely dominates the addict’s life. Digital addicts make the digital technology a priority more important than family, friends, and work. The digital technology becomes the organizing principle of addicts’ lives. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between Digital Addiction (DA) and academic performance among college students in public and private university. This study also identified the differences in digital addiction in terms of gender. The statistical techniques frequency and percentage are used to identify the patterns of using the Internet; t-test and one-way ANOVA is used to examine the differences in DA in terms of demographic factors. Pearson correlation technique will also be used to determine the relationship between DA and academic performance. This study helps to determine the level of digital addiction among college student and how its impacts their academic performance.
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