The study seeks to discover the concurrent mediating effect of self-esteem and social support between personality traits and life satisfaction. A Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was performed to determine the model of relationship on personality, social support, self-esteem, and life satisfaction. The Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) has achieved the fitness index requirement on the measurement model. The results show that Personality significantly affects Life Satisfaction. The result for Social Support shows it was partially mediated the relationship between Personality and Life Satisfaction. The result also shows that Self-Esteem partially mediates the relationship between Personality and Life Satisfaction. By understanding their life satisfaction; it can forecast and promote longevity, survival and suicide risk prevention; it may accordingly promote good health and greater academic success among the students. In turn, it contributes to the existing body of knowledge in the area of SWB, specifically the life satisfaction among students in Malaysians universities. The administrator, academicians, counsellors, and parents are the group of people that benefit a lot on the outcome of this study.
This quantitative study is done to explore factors for learning Mandarin among undergraduates. A purposive sample of 168 participants responded to the survey. The participants are non-native speakers who were learning Mandarin language as a foreign language. They consisted of 48% diploma students and 52 % of degree students in a Malaysian public university. The instrument used is a 5 Likert-scale survey and is rooted from learning strategies by (Wenden and Rubin, 1987). The survey has 4 sections which include items on participants' demographic profile, cognitive components, metacognitive self-regulation component and resource management component. Findings of the studies show that factors for language learning for instance attention, reproduction, retention and motivation show significant correlation among each others which indicated that these factors have significant influence on Mandarin language learning among learners. However, help-seeking in motivation factor is the strategies most preferred by learners to improve language learning.
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