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Association of perceived interest major fit and objective interest major fit with academic achievement


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Vahidi, Naghmeh and Roslan, Samsilah and Abdullah, Maria Chong and Omar, Zoharah (2016) Association of perceived interest major fit and objective interest major fit with academic achievement. International Journal of Education & Literacy Studies, 4 (2). pp. 90-100. ISSN 2202-9478

Abstract

Recently, despite the high budget allocating for education in Malaysia, the educational performance among students is low (Blueprint, 2013). Pascarella and Terenzini (2005; 1991) have identified four theories and models that affect students’ learning: (a) psychosocial, (b) cognitive-structural, (c) typological, and (d) person-environment interaction. This study focuses on person-environment interaction. The interactionist approach emphasizes that neither personal characteristics nor situational factors alone are unable to identify the attitudes or responses of people, but the interaction of them can be highly influential (Schneider, 1982; Terborg, 1981). Person-environment fit arguments were raised by interactionists who discussed that particulars attitudes, behaviours and cognitions are the results of the interaction between situational factors and individuals (Chatman, 1989; Muchinsky & Monahan, 1987; Ostroff & Schulte, 2007). The present study used academic achievement that is one of the outcomes of person–environment (P–E) fit. This research employed different types of P-E fit such as objective and perceived interest major fit. The main aim of the present study is to examine the relationship between the P-E fit and academic achievement. The present study is carried out in The Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). The participants of the study were 2503 undergraduate students of 12 faculties at UPM. Findings of the relationship between the P-E fit and academic achievement have shown a highly positive relationship between the perceived interest major fit and the academic achievement, but there is no significant relationship between the objective interest major fit and the academic achievement.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Educational Studies
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.4n.2p.90
Publisher: Australian International Academic Centre
Keywords: P-E fit; Objective interest major fit; Perceived interest major fit; Academic achievement
Depositing User: Ms. Nida Hidayati Ghazali
Date Deposited: 15 Dec 2017 03:14
Last Modified: 01 Apr 2019 04:21
Altmetrics: http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?domain=psasir.upm.edu.my&doi=10.7575/aiac.ijels.v.4n.2p.90
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55158
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