3.0 Drinking Behaviour in Malaysia Over the last decade, alcoholism is a dangerous pattern of alcohol consumption among young adults and a public health concern in the United States (US) (Naimi, Brewer, Mokdad, Denny, Serdula, and Marks, 2003) as alcohol can get easily from everywhere. In US, binge drinking usually peaked around 20–22year (Kuntsche, Rehm & Gmel, 2004). One of the predictor of alcoholism was the level of financial resources. In US, there is a research which include 700000 of respondents
and language use among three Asian American adolescent girls who integrate some elements of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) into their everyday speech. A group interview was conducted and the data gathered from the three girls was analysed in terms of its AAVE features and sociolinguistic variables in order to identify the relationship between the subjects' language code choice and their identity construction. Subjects expressed their fondness for AVVE
Students who have high connectedness to their school environment on a social emotional level are stated for to have acquired benefits, for example, academic achievement, future orientations and emotional stability (Lariviere, M. L., and Slate, J. R. 2014). The emotions and states of mind that are evoked by a school's situation are referred to as school climate (Goodenow, 1993). School is considered as a community, an ecological concept that allows the recognition of nature and school process that
is one of the reasons why school plays a major role in educating students about drug and alcohol abuse, prevention and early recognition. Moreover, not only this education help these students to stay away from drug abuse, but serve as source of information about drugs for those who are already addicted to drugs or the ones going through emotional trauma. Ominously high amounts of illegal drug use remain a problem among Indian students besides so many efforts collectively made by family, society, schools
component which influences empathy development in related to the context around children. As mentioned before, there is a relationship between the cognitive buildings of social competence, such as empathy, taking into account the individual differences facing conflictive situations. On the other hand, specific contextual factors in the environment around the individual which have own demands and expectation from the subject perform important roles in empathy development and students self perception
control the desires and interests a person has, the impact of negative peer influences must be counteracted in a different way. Peer influence is one of the largest contributing factors in the likelihood of an adolescent taking part in risky behaviors; therefore, I believe that adolescents can reduce the potential for risky behaviors by choosing friend groups that encourage healthy behaviors and decision-making. Topical Support: A peer group can be defined as a set of people who share at least one common
The issue of student absenteeism is currently the focus of intense activity in schools. It is also a high priority policy concern (DfES,1999; DfES, 2002, as cited in Malcolm, Wilson, Davidson, & Kirk, 2003) for the Ministry of Education (MoE) has set a target for every students to have attendance not less than 95 per cent throughout the school year. This issue also becoming a big topic in local newspapers a number of times in the early year. According to Acting Director-General of Education, Hj Abdul
INTRODUCTION Metacognition has an importance on academic performance, problem solving, and student learning. For instance several researches viewed metacognition as a predictor of learning (Flavell, 1979; Glaser, 1990; Veenman &Elshout, 1995; Wang, Haertel, & Walberg, 1993). Metacognition involves knowledge of cognitive, affective and motivational characteristics of thinking (Paris & Winograd, 1990). Metacognition is thinking about thinking (Corno & Mandinach, 1983). Metacognitive skills include
shortage of scientific studies of bullying among students in middle schools in Vietnam. Thus, this research aim at 1) find out different factors (root causes) that may affect bullying among middle school students 2) examine the degree of effect of the above determinants. The result of the study is expected to help educational managers and policy makers have insights on the issue, thus interventional measures can be
and Pruitt 74 ). So, why do college students continue to drink despite harmful consequences? College students drink for a few reasons including “social motives, conformity motives, coping motives and enhancement” (Wrye and Pruitt 74). From fraternity parties to in-dorm drinking, students abuse alcohol and drink excessively. This decreases academic performance, threatens personal morals, and leads to injuries and sexual abuse.