The Income Increment Program (IIP) is one of the programs introduced to the Orang Asli in 2014 to reduce hardcore poverty rates among indigenous community in Malaysia. This study aims to identify the participation of Orang Asli in the IIP and examine the impact of IIP toward socioeconomic changes. This study involved 110 Orang Asli who participated in the IIP in the state of Perak, Malaysia. The study showed that majority of the respondents involved in agriculture and farming as their main income, while collecting forest produce and rubber tapping as part-time jobs. Among the IIP projects undertaken in the state of Perak are vegetables, calamansi and banana plantations, as well as cattle farming, tilapia farming and stingless bee farming. The findings showed that there was an increment of the income among respondents although majority of them earned less than RM1000 per month. Findings also revealed that the highest impact of IIP is the empowerment in decision making, followed by changes in lifestyle, economic aspects and ownership. Overall, the level of impact is high in empowerment and changes in lifestyle, while moderate in other aspects discussed. Suggested recommendations were discussed for future improvement of IIP.
Anti-corruption education is important in curbing corruption behavior. However, there is limited evidence about what should be designed into the anti-corruption curriculum for young people. Hence, this study intends to make suggestions about the development of anticorruption education in Malaysia based on Theory of Social Representation. A survey to explore young people's lay representation toward corruption was carried out. 232 respondents between 18 to 33 years old (M=19.79, SD=2.65) participated in this crosssectional survey performed in Malays Language and translated into English for report purposes. The lay representation of the terms "corruption" was obtained using the free association and the rank-frequency technique. The result suggests five important considerations for the development of anti-corruption education: (1) educate people about the concept of corruption that includes not only money exchange; (2) continue to provide examples of integrity and legal practices in politics; (3) educate people about all types of corruption, (4) emphasize that corruption is not acceptable regardless of any situation or circumstances and ( 5) educate people about the effects of corruption. This suggestion could be used by the government, stakeholders, schools, and non-profit organizations who are interested in educating the public or creating anti-corruption awareness among young people in Malaysia.
Using strategic ambiguity tagline paradigm, we demonstrated that the strategic ambiguity tagline influences consumer attention on billboard advertisement evaluation. Despite the exceptional influence of strategic ambiguity tagline on billboard advertisement evaluation, the concept of strategic ambiguity tagline as discursive resources remains poorly conceptualised by previous studies. An experimental study was conducted to investigate the underlying mechanisms and circumstances that influence the impact of strategic ambiguity tagline on consumers attention. Findings revealed that strategic ambiguity tagline has a significant influence on consumers attention. However, we further observed strong effects of attitude towards tagline ads, perception towards tagline ads and brand motives using tagline ads on consumer attention when exposed to the ads, which signify effectiveness of strategic ambiguity tagline on consumer's attention. The theoretical and managerial implication are discussed.
Life satisfaction is a global evaluation can be determined by a strong capability of thoughts and feeling called emotional intelligence. At the same time, these two elements indirectly effect by certain psychosocial attributes such as attachment relationship of lecturers, attachment relationship of peers, immediacy behaviour of lecturers, interpersonal needs and interpersonal attraction of peers. Therefore, aim of this study proposed that determine the indirect relationship of attachment, immediacy, interpersonal needs and interpersonal attraction between emotional intelligence and life satisfaction among 600 undergraduate students in Klang Valley area. The two theories applied in this study are, PERMA model and Emotional Intelligence The results support the hypothesis of the study and revealed that attachment relationship of lecturer's, immediacy behaviour of lecturer's and interpersonal needs of students significantly played a mediator role based on Hayes Mediation Analysis Bootstrapping. It means there was an indirect and direct relationship between variables. Students, who had positive psychosocial attribution, had high level of emotional intelligence and life satisfaction.
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