This study aims to investigate the psychometric attributes of DASS21 instrument of depression, anxiety, and stress among Malaysian university undergraduate students, where negative emotional disturbance is evaluated in the respect of frequency and severity. During this study, English and Malay were the languages used for the descriptive investigation on the severity of emotional disturbance and psychometrics analysis. A crosssectional study was conducted among (N = 390) undergraduate students from Universiti Putra Malaysia, through a simple random exercise. This was followed by collection of data on the final respondents through AMOS for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and measurement. An excellent structure of the 21-items in three DASS21 sub-constructs was displayed, with 18 out of 21 items were produced from adequate construct validity. It exhibited a positive factor loading, which amounted to 0.5 and higher. In terms of internal consistency, the alpha values for anxiety (𝛼 = 0.850), stress (𝛼 = 0.859), and depression (𝛼 = 0.910) were shown. A positive consistency of Cronbach's Alpha (𝛼 = 0.926) could also be seen from the overall score where all items were included. Thus, DASS21 can be utilized as a measurement tool to identify the health condition of students with negative emotional disturbances.
This study aims to identify the level of understanding, appreciation and practice of identity among Malaysian citizens from education and unity perspective. Are Malaysians remained and still remain or begin to fade and fade understanding, appreciation and practice their Malay Language as an education and unity tools? Therefore, a survey was conducted on 1200 respondents of various races in Malaysia. The study respondents were randomly selected. The questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The data were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that the overall level of understanding, appreciation and practice of Malay Language among Malaysians citizens from the perspective of education and unity still remains. In terms of race, the Malays show the level of understanding, appreciation and practice of Malay Language from the perspective of the eternal education and unity show. On the other hand, the Chinese, Indians, Sabah native, Sarawak native and other ethnic groups are still understanding. The implications of this study all the thought Malay Language is the best medium to foster racial in education and unity in Malaysia. All races still to understand, appreciate and practice Malay Language as a communication tool and instrument of unity among various races and ethnic in Malaysia.
Writing skills are considered the most difficult skill to teach and comprehend by students. This skill needs a student to think the idea, construct the idea and put the idea appropriately in the writing text. Poor mastery the writing skills may cause the students to think that writing activity is burdensome, therefore the result is gray. Most of the teachers argue that the main problem in writing an essay is the inability of the students to create an idea based on the topic given. Students need to know about the importance of using strategy in essay writing. This concept paper analyzing the essay writing strategy based on Levine Motor Planning. It also discussed the benefits of applying Levine Motor Planning in essay writing strategy. This theory has explained in depth about the brain process during writing. Thus, this paper could be used as a good platform to the teachers who love to explore cognitive writing skill to understand one's mind while they are writing.
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