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Impact of commuter families on adolescent development: an evaluation of the adolescent from Peninsular Malaysia


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Siaw, Yan Li and Roslan, Samsilah and Abdullah, Maria Chong and Abdullah, Haslinda (2018) Impact of commuter families on adolescent development: an evaluation of the adolescent from Peninsular Malaysia. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 26 (1). pp. 239-258. ISSN 0128-7702; ESSN: 2231-8534

Abstract

This study attempted to address the question concerning the influence of commuter families on adolescent school performance using the proposed Model for Adolescent Development Among Commuter Families (MADCF). We investigated whether the adolescent problem mediates the relationship between parental readiness and adolescent school performance, and clarified the moderating effect of gender. The survey data were drawn from 434 respondents (adolescents-parents) in Malaysia. The results indicated that the adolescent externalising problem partially mediated the relationship between parental readiness and adolescent school performance. The model accounted for 21% of the variability in adolescent school performance. The moderator findings presented that gender moderates the causal effect of parental readiness and the adolescent externalising problem with respect to adolescent school performance. This study clearly shows the importance of parental readiness, and that the results are in line with the proposed mediation and moderation effects. The model proposed by this study was strongly supported.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Educational Studies
Faculty of Human Ecology
Publisher: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
Keywords: Parental readiness; Commuter families; Adolescent development
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 18 May 2018 02:14
Last Modified: 18 May 2018 02:14
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60244
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