The influence of urban poverty on students’ academic optimism: does government assistance play a role?

Othman, Azam and Mohd Ali, Hairuddin and Hussien, Suhailah and Abdullah, Moha Asri and Ruslan, Norbaiduri and Souad, Merah (2021) The influence of urban poverty on students’ academic optimism: does government assistance play a role? IIUM Journal of Educational Studies, 9 (4). pp. 37-57. ISSN 2289-8085

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Abstract

The present study investigated the relationship between urbanpoor students’ perceptions of government assistance and poverty and their level of academic optimism. A survey was administered to 500 urban poor students in two major Malaysian cities, Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru. The students were identified and randomly selected for the study with the help of their respective schools.AMOS version 24 was used to test the hypothesised model using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The findings revealed a significant direct association between students’ perceptions of poverty and academic optimism. However, no significant indirect influence was found between students’ perceptions of poverty and their academic optimism through government assistance. These findings suggest that government assistance programmes are not necessarily a contributor to students’ academic optimism. The lack of any significant influence between students’ perceptions of poverty and academic optimism, through government assistance, may indicate a need to re-evaluate the existing assistance programmes rendered by the government to students in the urban poor category

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	2013/95909
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Malaysia,government assistance programmes, students’ perceptions of poverty, academic optimism, urban poverty, secondary school
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Education Kulliyyah of Education > Department of Social Foundations & Educational Leadership Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Communication
Depositing User:	Dr Suhailah Hussien
Date Deposited:	03 Jan 2022 09:43
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2022 09:18
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/95909

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