COVID-19 Pandemic: Youth Compliance Behaviors towards Movement Control Order (MCO)

Abstract

This analysis aims to investigate Muslim youths' compliance behavior towards the Standard Operating Procedures throughout the Malaysian government's Movement Control Order, which was implemented to contain and mitigate the cases of the COVID-19. The design of this study is a survey study using a questionnaire instrument on 545 respondents who were purposefully selected among Muslim youth aged 15 to 30 years in Malaysia. Meanwhile, the data was analyzed using descriptive statistical techniques using IBM SPSS. The findings of this study can provide information to the youth, particularly regarding the COVID-19 prevention procedure and the needs of following it. Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, behavior, youth, Movement Control Order (MCO). eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i17.2850

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Standard of Living of the B40 Group

“…The rising cost of living is a significant concern among Malaysians compared to their fear of COVID-19. Malaysians are faced with worsening economic pressure due to the effects of COVID-19 (Abdul Rashid, 2020;Zur Raffar et al, 2021), which is expected to continue to face higher living costs in the future when the prices of food and raw materials have started to increase due to inflation. The income of Malaysians decreased by 50% in 2021 due to the effects of COVID-19.…”