Financial well-being refers to one's overall satisfaction with their current financial condition, and it plays a significant part in young adults' overall success as well as their ability to overcome psychological health concerns. It has become a crucial concern for individuals, households, societies, and countries in recent years, yet research on the subject is sparse and dispersed among fields. As a result, the current research assessed an empirical financial wellbeing model based on Malaysian young adults' financial knowledge, financial socialization, financial behavior and financial strain. A multi stage random sampling method was performed to draw a representative sample of Malaysian young adults, and 651 duly filled responses were received through the self-administered questionnaire. As stated by the multiple regression results, 16.1% of the total variance of financial well-being was clarified by the model. All four financial well-being determinants examined (financial knowledge, financial socialization, financial behavior, financial strain) were revealed significant, and only financial strain had a negative relationship with financial well-being. Therefore, current study has both the theoretical and practical contributions, and offers experts with actionable insights regarding the determinants of young adults' financial well-being when designing policies to uplift their financial well-being over time.

Excellent human resource development prioritizes organizational performance development elements. Organizational performance in Malaysia’s public sector is a concept that still needs to be explored. To date, improvements to leadership quality in order to enhance employee competence is one of the areas of study that has become the focus of researchers in the field of human resource development. In fact, leadership quality is also influenced by a person’s self-resilience to changes – one such example is police officers’ competence in order to perform their duties well. This study aims to assess the relationship between self-resilience and the leadership qualities of police officers. The study involved the Royal Malaysia Police of the state of Selangor. The study which used a simple randomized quantitative method involved 105 respondents comprised of police officers and other members of the force. Findings of the study indicate highest positive relationships between leadership and competency, resilience and competency, and resilience and leadership, with r values between 0.791 to 0.864. However, the relationship between leadership quality based on education level and length of service (work experience) was not significant. This study shows that there are several elements in human resource development and performance management that can be improved by emphasizing on the leadership aspect in order to improve the competencies of police officers in Malaysia.

Societies with high intelligence quotient (IQ) practice healthier lifestyles, which results in enhanced health status and higher life expectancy. This paper attempts to examine the impact of national average IQ on level of cigarette consumption at a cross-country level. Since smoking is detrimental for human health and causes about ten percent of the total number of deaths every year worldwide, this research is deemed important. Regression analysis with robust standard errors was employed to scrutinize the effect of national IQ on cigarette consumption. After controlling for demographic factors, IQ was found to have significantly positive associations with all measures of cigarette consumption. Unlike the control variables, the positive effect of IQ on smoking was found to be robust to spatial dependence. Nevertheless, the positive effect gradually reduced as the IQ level increased. The proposed explanation is that cigarette smoking is an evolutionarily novel activity that did not previously exist in human ancestral environments. Therefore, as the IQ level rises, societies initially are more likely to appreciate and adopt the novel behavior of smoking. In high-IQ societies, the positive relationship eventually weakens as people become more aware of the health hazards of smoking.

A positive connection between intelligence (measured as IQ) and happiness at the country level has been described repeatedly. The present study treats IQ as an important source of human and social capital, and ultimately of happiness and life satisfaction. Considering that the public institutions are responsible to serve the needs of the majority, this study specifically examines the moderating effect of governance quality on the relationship between national average IQ and happiness at a cross-country level. The results of robust regression analysis revealed that national IQ was highly significant in raising the level of happiness. Furthermore, the interaction between IQ and governance quality contributed a positive and significant effect on happiness. The conclusion is that governance quality enhances the positive impact of intelligence on happiness. Good governance appears to create the conditions under which higher national IQ can be used towards achieving a higher level of well-being.

Urban agriculture (UA) is one of the Malaysian government's initiatives to overcome food security issues by providing food or related services within or on the edges of urban areas. In relation to that, one of the ideas is to empower the local community in developing the social capital of the nation through the government UA programs. However, there is an existing gap on the effectiveness of the impact of UA towards the respective community. Hence, through this study, it will discover the factors that affect the empowerment of UA program's participants. Total of 212 respondents between the ages of 21 years old to 60 years and above from the Klang Valley region (vicinal town of Selangor and Kuala Lumpur States of Malaysia) have participated in this study. The data were collected through the survey in qualitative study and interpreted using the SPSS software. Through the analysis, it is found that the respondents have high levels in the planning program for bonding social capital, bridging social capital, and economic empowerment. In addition, the factors of linking social capital, planning, and evaluation in a program are among the significant predictors of empowerment of UA program's participants. Also, the finding of this study adds to the new point of view in complexities associated with UA among urban communities. On the other hand, it is beneficial for policy makers to utilize extension officers' role in Malaysia as a tool to increase the participation of Klang Valley urban communities to partake in Urban Agriculture project. It is recommended for more specific courses and involvement of many stakeholders to enhance urban communities' awareness and acceptance towards Urban Agriculture. Positively, this study suggests a new direction for getting more urban dwellers to be involved in innovative cultivation activities, and in the end, it would make agriculture attractive and maintain its sustainability.