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Proactive personality and career decision self-efficacy: The mediating role of planned happenstance
Full text linkThe junior high school major decision, influenced by personality and capacity, has a subsequent impact on the future careers of the students. This study aimed to identify the mediating role of planned happenstance in the relationship between proactive personality and career decision self-efficacy in junior high school students. As many as 140 junior high school students in Jabodetabek with an average age of 14 years participated in this study. They mainly consist of 9thgrade students (88 females and 52 males). This quantitative study used a non-experimental design, namely the cross-sectional study design. Three adapted measurement tools: career decision selfefficacy short form, proactive personality scale, and planned happenstance career inventory were used to collect the data. Data were analyzed using Haye’s regression techniques to test the mediation. The finding supports the hypothesis, that planned happenstance partially mediates the relationship between proactive personality and career decision self-efficacy. In other words, proactive personality could influence students’ planned happenstance, which ultimately could predict their level of selfefficacy in making career decisions. The implications of the results for the development and preparation for junior high school students are discussed
Intellectual values and epistemological understanding of middle school students in Indonesia
Full text linkEngaging in intellectual activities and seek new knowledge is critical for Indonesian students. However, most learning activities in elementary and secondary schools in Indonesia are centered on rote learning. This study aimed to provide an initial description of how middle school students in Indonesia value intellectual activities and describe the level of epistemological understanding that underlie how they value intellectual activities. Sixty-eight middle school students were involved in this study by giving their responses to intellectual values questions. Descriptive analysis was conducted to examine the percentage of participants who endorse discussion. Additionally, the reasons for endorsing discussion were also examined to determine the epistemological understanding level. The percentage of participants that endorse discussion in question one, two, and three was 71%, 47%, and 50%, respectively. While 24% of participants consistently endorsed discussion in all three questions. Most students gave reasons that indicate absolutist or multiplist level of an epistemological understanding. Very few reasons can be categorized into the evaluativist level. Students seem to believe that discussion is important to do to solve the problems. Most students have yet to perceive the intellectual activity as an essential tool to enhance their understanding and acquire new knowledge, as an evaluativist would.
Parenting style and empathy in children: The mediating role of family communication patterns
Full text linkBehavior problems among children in Indonesia are still high. The number of children involved in legal problems shows that there are existing moral problems. A crucial component in morals is empathy. Family, as the primary system in a child's life, has a significant influence on the development of empathy in children. This research was conducted to analyze the effect of parenting style on empathy in children through family communication patterns in early childhood in Indonesia. As many as 233 parents of 6 - 8 years old children participated in this study. The Parental Authority Questionnaire-Revised (PAQ-R), Basic Empathy Scale - Parent Report (BES-PR) and Family Communication Patterns-Revised (FCP-R) were used to collect the data. The results of this study indicate that family communication patterns mediate the relationship between parenting style and empathy in children. Conversational communication pattern mediate the effect of both authoritative parenting and permissive parenting on child's empathy independently. Conformity communication pattern only mediate the influence of authoritarian parenting on empathy in children. The current findings add information about the understanding about parenting strategies and interactions as well as the role of the family in the development of empathy in children
Job insecurity and organizational citizenship behavior: The role of affective commitment
Full text linkPrevious research showed inconsistent findings in the relationship between job insecurity and OCB, indicating an underlying mechanism to occur between the variables. This study aimed to examine affective commitment as a mediator in the relationship between job insecurity and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Drawing on organizational identification theory, we took on the perspective of organizational concern motive and suggested affective commitment to mediate the job insecurity and OCB relationship. The study employs a correlational design with an accidental sampling technique. Participants of the study were employees of private and state-owned companies in Indonesia (N = 217). Data were analyzed on Hayes’s PROCESS macro on SPSS statistic software. Results show a significantly negative relationship between job insecurity and OCB, significantly negative relationship between job insecurity and affective commitment relationship, and a significantly positive relationship between affective commitment and OCB. Furthermore, affective commitment is found to mediate the relationship between job insecurity and OCB, confirming the organizational concern motive of OCB as a consequence of job insecurity. The study implies that organizations should eliminate job insecurity if possible, or design interventions to develop employee’s oneness with the organization.
Softs Skills Teacher Camp of Adventure Training to increase teachers' commitment in Pathani Thailand
Full text linkCommitment is needed to overcome various obstacles while teaching in conflict areas. This study aimed to increase teacher commitment in the Pathani conflict area, Southern Thailand, through Soft Skills Teacher Camp of Adventure Training. A quantitative approach using a quasi-experimental method was used in this study. Thirty teachers from six schools with a maximum age of 35 years participated in soft skills training. The Soft Skills Teacher Camp of Adventure Training consists of six sessions on six different soft skills, which are motivation, stress management, creativity, teamwork, communication skills, and leadership. The commitment scale consisting of three aspects: affective commitment, normative commitment, and continuance commitment, was used to collect the data. Paired Sample t-test was used to analyze the data. The result highlighted a significant difference between the pretest and posttest scores of teachers’ commitment in the Pathani, Southern Thailand. These findings imply that the Soft Skills Teacher Camp of Adventure Training increases the commitment of teachers who teach in the Pathani, Southern Thailand
Gender differences in the experience of loneliness among adolescents in Jakarta
Full text linkAdolescence is a transition period from childhood to adulthood. During this period, adolescents are prone to problems, one of those problems being loneliness. This research aimed to find out gender differences in the experience of loneliness among adolescents in Jakarta. Six hundred sixty-two participants, which consisted of 318 male and 344 female students aged between 15-20 years old, were selected from five schools by using multi-stage random sampling. 6-Item (short) De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scales were used to measure loneliness. Data was collected through school-based research conducted on senior high school students in the Special Capital Region of Jakarta. The results show that there are significant differences in loneliness between male and female adolescents in overall, emotional and social dimensions. Female adolescents had significantly higher scores of loneliness compared to male adolescents, not only overall but also in emotional and social dimensions
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The effect of emotional labour on work satisfaction and emotional display behaviour
Full text linkImproving the quality of service in the hospitality industry is a strategic agenda that enables the increase of foreign exchange income. Internal factors affect the quality of service, particularly factors related to emotional processing (emotional labour) of service workers that are associated with the display of an expected emotional expression (emotional display behaviour) when providing services. Furthermore, another essential aspect to consider how to express the expected emotional expression well while also maintaining work comfort (job satisfaction) of the service providers. This research explored the effect of emotional labour on emotional display behaviour and job satisfaction. The study was conducted in a 5-star hotel, involving 94 front liner employees selected through convenience sampling. The study used the Surface and Deep Act Scale, Management Behavior Scale and MSQ-Short Scale. One-way ANOVA was used to analyze the data. The results showed that emotional labour profile had a positive effect on job satisfaction but not on emotional display behaviour. Therefore emotional labour as a personal capital needs to be addressed to enhance job satisfaction
Comparison of marital satisfaction by couples types in arranged (ta'aruf) married couples
Full text linkOne form of marital arrangements in Indonesian Muslim society is to get married through arranged marriages, popularly called as ta'aruf. Ta'aruf is related to the individual's religiosity, which may be associated with high marital satisfaction. This study aimed to explore the comparison of marital satisfaction by couple types in the context of marriage through ta'aruf. This research involved 62 persons as couples (M of age = 25.35 years old) in Jakarta as participants. The Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS) and Relational Dimensions Instrument (RDI) were used to collect the data. The couple types were derived from K-Means cluster analysis on the RDI score which was further analyzed with one-way ANOVA to test for difference in marital satisfaction. The results show there is a significant difference in marital satisfaction among the couple types in the couples as general, and also particularly in men as husbands. However, marital satisfaction does not differ to the couple type among women as wives. Therefore, gender seems to influence this relationship since husbands and wives differ in their degree of marital satisfaction within the same couple types. The compatibility on the vision and marital scheme between the spouses may enforce to a high marital satisfaction