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Mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms on associations between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households


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Ahmad, Siti Yuliandi and Sabri, Mohamad Fazli and Abdul Rahim @ Abdul Wahab, Husniyah and Osman, Syuhaily (2016) Mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms on associations between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households. Malaysian Journal of Consumer and Family Economics, 19. pp. 143-159. ISSN 1511-2802

Abstract

Coping process involves contingency actions of individual to alter their cognitive and behaviour to cope with stress encountering events in life. Self-coping mechanisms were examined further as mediating effect between financial practices and financial security among female-headed households in Malaysia. A model was then constructed based on Characteristics Theory, Cognitive of Stress and Coping Theory. A multi-stage random sampling was executed and a self-administered survey was executed to collect data from 600 respondents from six single mother associations at every zone in Malaysia. A structural equation modelling using AMOS software was used to examine mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms in a relationship between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households in Malaysia. The findings support that a significant relationship exists between indirect and mediating models. The study revealed that there is a partial mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms between financial practices and financial security. The role of self-coping mechanisms is crucial to grasp a better understanding of how financial practices and financial security are related to improving the living standards of female-headed households. Implications and limitations of the study are dissussed further.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Human Ecology
Publisher: Malaysian Consumer and Family Economics Association
Keywords: Self-coping mechanisms; Financial practices; Financial security; Female-headed households
Depositing User: Nurul Ainie Mokhtar
Date Deposited: 23 Apr 2018 07:42
Last Modified: 29 Aug 2018 01:18
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54775
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