Abstract
The concept of quality of life broadly encompasses on how an individual measures the goodness of multiple aspects of their life, as there are number of challenges to develop a meaningful understanding of the quality of life. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that contribute to the quality of life among undergraduate SQS students. The respondents of this cross-sectional study were 273 undergraduate students from School of Quantitative Sciences, which was selected via convenient and snowball non-probability sampling method. The collection of the primary data was performed using a questionnaire including demographic and quality of life questions. Analysis of the data was conducted through Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 2.6. All the 32 items are tested for its’ reliability using the Cronbach’s alpha, and KMO’s. The values are 0.891 and 0.876 respectively. According to the results, there are six factors that contribute/ influence the QoL for the undergraduate SQS students that involved in this study, which are family, friends, academic, social wellbeing, physical and financial, and environment. The value of Cronbach alpha for each factor indicates that the reliability of internal consistency is high and reliable and the KMO’s value for the factor pattern is meritorious and the Bartlett's test of sphericity also resulted with a significant value of p < 0.05.
Highlights
Quality of life (QoL) concept is mainly different for each person, as they measure the goodness of some aspect of their own life
QoL is a perception of individual’s position in life that mainly focus on the context of the value systems and culture that they live which relate to their expectation, goal, concerns and standard (World Health Organization, 2020)
Zeiss and Heinemann (2002) said exploratory factor analysis was used for a variation of application, likes to develop an instrument for the evaluation of school principal, to determine the types of services that should be offered to college students (Majors & Sedlacek, 2001) and to assess the incentive of high school students in Puerto Rican (Morris, 2001)
Summary
Quality of life (QoL) concept is mainly different for each person, as they measure the goodness of some aspect of their own life. High stress among students may affect the social and psychological aspect towards their life and their QoL. Performance of academic is a part of QoL This is because students who have a good QoL can achieve better in academics (Ofoghi, Sadeghi & Bahaei, 2016). Barker, Howard, Galambos, and Wrosch (2016) found that commonly students that are happy displayed the highest enhancements in academic achievement over time. This positive quality of life has been made known to have a confirming influence on academic accomplishment among university students.
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