Youth Nowadays Research Articles

The Association Between Stress Level and Smoking Behavior in Gondanglegi Junior High School Boys

Stress is a common issue in youth nowadays. Stress that arises is often caused by biological, psychological, family, school, and friend factors. In times of stress, the body automatically carries out stress management, one of which is smoking. This study aimed to determine the relationship between stress levels with smoking behavior in junior high school boys in Gondanglegi. This research uses a descriptive-analytic method with a cross-sectional approach. The population is junior high school boys in Gondanglegi, and the sample is 36 respondents. Sampling was done by purposive sampling technique. The measuring instruments used were the DASS questionnaire and the smoking behavior questionnaire. Processing data using Spearman Rank statistical tests. The results showed that 29 respondents (80.6%) were in the normal stress category, and 19 respondents (52.8%) in the smoking behavior category were light smokers. Based on the statistical test results obtained, Spearman Rank p value = 0.039 <α (0.05), then H0 is rejected, meaning that there is a relationship between stress levels with smoking behavior in adolescent boys in Gondanglegi. These results indicate a significant relationship between stress levels and smoking behavior among teenage boys in Gondanglegi. So it is hoped that there will be counseling for teenagers for stress management and smoking behavior at school

Youth participation in traditional cultural practices in contemporary Tumu: An exposé on the Ceremonial Costume Art of Fuowie Nasolo, a youth cultural iconic figure in Tumu

Youth participation in traditional cultural practices in contemporary Africa (Ghana) has been on the decline due to the alarming rate at which African youth assimilate foreign cultures. Many African (Ghanaian) youth nowadays mock African (Ghanaian) ethnic cultures in favour of Western cultures. However, previous research suggests youth cultural activism in Tumu, Ghana. This positive development has the tendency to preserve and promote the cultural identity of Tumu. This study, therefore, sought to establish the motivation behind youth participation in traditional cultural practices in contemporary Tumu with a specific focus on the costume art of Fuowie Nasolo, a youth cultural iconic figure in Tumu. Qualitative descriptive analysis of interview transcripts and photographic data gathered from twenty-five (25) heterogenous-purposively sampled informants reveal that youth cultural activism in contemporary Tumu is engendered by the sustained cultural tutelage provided by the elders of Tumu. Additionally, it was emphasised that youth cultural participation in contemporary Tumu is extrinsically motivated by the admirable cultural activism of Fuowie, the unifying leader of Tumu youth cultural group. A cursory study of the cultural manifestations of Fuowie’s ceremonial costume art, reveals the royal, heroic, and wardress culture of the indigenes of Tumu. Since Fuowie’s cultural activism significantly complements the effort of Tumu elders in promoting youth cultural participation, the study calls for sustained collaboration between Fuowie and the elders of Tumu to massively promote youth participation in traditional cultural activities for cultural preservation, cultural restoration, and the construction of authentic cultural identity of the people of Tumu for posterity.

PERAN DAN FUNGSI KELUARGA DALAM MEMBANGUN KEPRIBADIAN REMAJA YANG BAIK DAN BERKELANJUTAN DI INDONESIA: SUATU TINJAUAN LITERATUR

This research is motivated by the youth nowadays issue, where the building of youth personality begins in the family environment. In the family environment, many factors make today's youth less moral, such as families who are regardless and do not care about each other and the influence of peers who misbehave. The sophistication of technology is misused, so the factors for building a negative youth personality. In addition, the most significant factor affecting youth personality is their social environment and interaction, namely everything around the child and events that occur as well as conditions along with the child's education process and the environment interaction every day. Environmental situations and conditions strongly influence youth. The environment influences many excellent and lousy youth morals. In line with the times and advances in science and modern technology can cause shock and anxiety in adolescents. The youth often imagine how their life will be in the future. Based on the literature study, this study concludes that families can significantly reduce violence, crime, exploitation, and torture by understanding 2 (two) factors that influence personality building, internal and external factors. Internal factors come from within the youth, while external factors demonstrate outside the human person. Thus, the family must remain the main gate for developing youth conditions relevant to sustainable development goals.

Digital youth in Qatar: Negotiating culture and national identity through social media networks

The expanding digital media environment in Qatar is arguably affecting the construction of young people’s identities and the various expressions of who they are. The multiplicity of online digital spaces allows the youth nowadays to easily commute between multiple platforms and consume a multitude of media content in a manner not possible at any point before them. Through the implementation of ten focus group discussions among a sample of Qatari youths between 19 and 35 years of age, as well as 27 semi-structured in-depth interviews with social media activists, media experts, academics and policymakers in Qatar, this article attempts to analyse the complex media consumption environment that the Qatari youth engage with as well as the impact of that consumption on the formation of their identity. It looks at the extent to which their choices of various media genres on social media platforms allow them to negotiate and develop their own hybridized cultural identity. This study also considers how the Qatari youth capitalize on online spaces to reconstruct and represent their own personas and consolidate their thoughts and perceptions about the world around them. The findings show great affinity to social media networks. Online spaces such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp appear as key sources of news, information gathering, communication and entertainment. The study also reveals a significant impact of the content of social media networks along with opinion leaders like role models and influencers in prompting the consumption behaviour, opinion-making and personal choices in terms of fashion and style among the Qatari youth.

A Study of Entrepreneurship Substitute to Job Market in the Context of Bangladesh

Immense competition in job market, competitive exam patterns in getting a job, nepotism etc. all are making a job very tough for an unemployed youth nowadays. Even after getting a job, they find lack of independence, job stress, sub ordinance, tiring working hours, politics too severe to tolerate. Entrepreneurship is the act of creating a business either from the scratch or from already an established one ensuring independence, freedom, decision making power, flexible work hours etc. The study will cover all the problems associated with getting and sustaining in the jobs. Besides, all the positive impacts of entrepreneurship will be included in a broad aspect as it has multi-dimensional activities to perform. The obstacles to facilitate entrepreneurship will also be covered so that future corrective actions can be taken to. On top of that, a comparison will be made between these two to represent an evaluation. The role of regulatory authority will also be focused whereas the attention of mass people will be drawn at length. This study will be beneficial as it will come up with potentiality of a particular sector which will remove the problem of unemployment to a great extent and play a role in the economy of our country. Keywords: Job Market, Nepotism, Job Stress, Entrepreneurship, Decision Making Power, Regulatory Authority, Unemployment. DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/13-13-02 Publication date: July 31 st 2021

Relationship between Social Support and Depressive Symptoms among Undergraduate University Students

Depression among youth nowadays is alarming and many factors that lead them todevelop depressive symptoms. One of the elements is lack in social support and socialsupport also can become the protective factor towards depression. This studyinvestigated the relationship between social support and depressive symptoms amongundergraduate university students. The participants were recruited throughconvenience sampling and they have voluntarily answered the questionnaire throughan online survey link. They were among 100 IIUM undergraduate students from alllevels of studies, various kulliyyah and consisted of 9 males and 91 female studentsranged between 18 until 25 years old. It has been hypothesized that there will be asignificant relationship between social support and depressive symptoms amongundergraduate university students. A correlational survey design was used in thisstudy through chi-square data analysis in analyzing the relationship between the threelevels of social support and four levels of depressive symptoms. A chi-square analysiswas conducted and the result found that there was a statistically significantrelationship between these variables, χ2 (6) =16.712, p<.05, p=0.01. The resultindicated that there was a relationship between social support and depressivesymptoms in which students with a high level of social support had a minimal level ofdepressive symptoms. The limitation of this study is the small sample size (n=100);most of the participants were females students (91%) and the scale in the form of selfreportthat can cause bias. The significance of this study is it can provide anunderstanding to the society about the importance and role of social support amongthe people. Besides, the present study will show the relationship of social support ondepressive symptoms due to the absence or presence of social support. Moreover, thisstudy also can help society and policymakers to develop more intervention programsrelated to social support. Thus, social support plays a vital role in alleviatingdepressive symptoms.

WHY SHOULD THEY BE MIGRANT LABOUR?

There are sources which are needed by a nation, we can say human resource and natural resource. Human resources are one of the important sources for a nation for its growth, instead of natural source. But, still, there are people who have gone to different countries to get a better life for their future as they have said or there are still unemployees number stated. This is only the writer's side of view about the human resources which have a high contribution to the growth of a nation. A nation as a great organization needs to handle its human resources to make it great in many ways of life of the global era nowadays. Human resource management will be needed here and will make many policies to handle this source instead of natural sources. If a nation doesn’t make any policies to handle to empower, to strengthen them to be great manpower who will conquer every competition of this global era. A fact that we have seen much nowadays is being an entrepreneur. Many young generations started to get settled by doing business that brought much youth too to be hired as part-timers or full-timers, that is really great scene of our youth nowadays (www.businessdictionary.com). They tried to be on their own, they opened their mind not always to be an employee who always got monthly income, so they don’t have to think too much about their life. For those youth, being an entrepreneur is a challenge, they will make other people see that they are able to stand on their own feet. Being an entrepreneur would give them a lesson about human resource management too by doing, and it would teach them more about running and manage their own business, instead of knowing that they could get by reading, listen, and watching from their schools, university, and courses

A STUDY ON THE PERCEPTION OF YOUTH TOWARDS FAST FOOD

The latest socio-cultural shift we are witnessing is the increasing demand towards healthy eating. This is largely due to increased media exposure and awareness of the hazards of junk food. Youth nowadays is looking for healthy substitutes which exhibits a change in eating habits. This study tries to find out the change in perception of youth towards healthy eating , as it is always assumed that youth prefer junk food.
 Our research focuses on identifying the correlation between demographic profiles and perception towards healthy eating habits. It further studies the relationship between perception of healthy eating habits and consumption of soft drinks, instant noodles and fast food. A sample of 200 respondents between the age group 18-35 years were taken for the study. Three top of the mind brands - Maggi, McDonald’s, and Pepsi were taken for the study. Statistical tools were used to analyze the collected data. Bivariate statistical tools were used to analyze data and the findings suggested that there is a direct correlation between perception of healthy eating habits and consumption of Maggie, McDonald’s and Pepsi.

The Implementation of Active Design for Technology-Driven Activities in Malaysia

The youth nowadays focused more on electronic media technologies, which resulted in a decrease in physical activities and growing health problems. In combating this dilemma, exergaming is introduced. However, it needs to be incorporated with the environmental surrounding to be proactive. This paper intends to investigate the potentiality of implementing the active design strategy in technology-driven activities in Malaysia. The findings from existing exergaming case studies are synthesized into a design strategy and translated to an architectural proposal. In conclusion, the active design strategy is significant in integrating environmental, physical and human needs and developing quality active living amongst youth.Keywords: exergaming; interactive; physical activity; active designeISSN: 2398-4287© 2020. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bsby e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, UniversitiTeknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v5i13.2064

Identification of Avatar Mediates the Associations Between Motivations of Gaming and Internet Gaming Disorder Among the Malaysian Youth

Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) genre has been expanding rapidly in Malaysia. However, the nature of this genre is addictive. Research in the area of Internet gaming disorder (IGD) among gamers of this genre is relatively new, signifying a substantial literature gap to be filled. The aim of the present study was to examine the selected determinants (i.e., motivations of gaming and identification of avatar) of IGD among MOBA gamers. The mediating role of identification of avatar in the associations between motivations of gaming (i.e., achievement, socialization, and immersion) and IGD was also investigated. A total of 1175 gamers were recruited through MOBA online groups in social media. Males were accounted for 75.20% (n = 808) and aged between 18 and 29 (Mage = 22.19 years, SD = 3.30). The findings revealed that motivation of achievement, motivation of immersion, and identification of avatar positively predict IGD, whereas motivation of socialization negatively predicts IGD among MOBA gamers. Identification of avatar was found as a significant mediator of the relationships between motivations of gaming and IGD. A large effect size was found with a total of 45% of variances explained by each determinant in the study. Overall, the findings of the present study provided empirical evidence for the underlying determinants of IGD. Intensive collaboration from various parties should be established for diminishing the potential adverse impacts of IGD on youth nowadays.

A Qualitative Study:Perceptions of Premarital Sexual Behavior among Teenage Girls

Background: Youth nowadays are encouraged to do premarital sexual practice like kissing or making out even some of them are okay with free sex. This happens because of assertiveness deficiany among teenanger. Objective: This qualitative study aims to explore teenage girls’ experience in assetiveness toward premarital sexual behavior. Method: Data were acquired through a thorough interview on eight teenage girls aged from 18 to 21 years old selected with purposive sampling technique. The data were analized with Colaizzi approach. Results: The themes found related to teenage girls experience on premarital sexual behavior including sexual behavior determinant, reasons on being assertive, the assertiveness, its impact or effect, and obstacle of being assertive. Conclusion: This study recommends healthy sexual education for teenage girls to prevent premarital sexual behavior by boldly stating the limitation on what to do and not do while in a relationship, by always having healthy communication with parents, by developing religion believes and knowledge, and as well by boldly reject any negative or unhealthy behavior while in a relationship.

Awareness of Digital Footprint Management in the New Media Amongst Youth

The industrial revolution creates a new era where everything can be accessed via the Internet. However, despite all the advantages, the new era of technology comes with disadvantages as well. Studies have shown that the youth category is the group that is a synonym to technology. Most of the youth nowadays enjoy using the features but lacked the information on the footprint of their Internet browsing history. When individuals engaged with the Internet, they generated a complex trail of these digital footprints that may include their various presentation of self, based on social profiles and comments, traces of their activities, interest, interaction and anything else they choose to share online. However, the extent to which netizens are aware that they are creating these tracks and traces and have some ability to manipulate and control them is unclear at present. Thus, the objective of this paper is to identify the level of awareness among youth about the digital footprint. The research started with a structured survey distributed to respondents as a data collection requirement for analysis. A quantitative research method is employed in this research. Survey was conducted to the three main areas namely urban, suburban and rural as a sample of the population. Results were presented in the form of description analysis with respondents demographic and perception of respondents based on digital footprint awareness. Keywords: Industrial revolution, digital, footprint, awareness, youth, technology.

Educare alla legalità per prevenire la devianza

Starting from youngsters' statements of "little trust" in the main established institutions (including government, politics, police, healthcare, Church, education and family), the author delves into the motivations and effects of the widespread mistrust of the new generations towards the adult society. The reasons seem to include the ethical-moral disorientation and the value void characterizing youth nowadays. Young individuals need certainties, rules and limits allowing them to orientate and regulate themselves in an increasingly fast world, with frontiers that are no longer insuperable. The adults have abdicated from their educational responsibilities, in favor of an elusive friend figure (i.e., the parent-friend, the teacher-friend) that has nothing to do with the healthy and physiological asymmetry allowing the child/adolescent to differentiate him/herself from the adult in order to grow up. Deviance, therefore, defined as having a harmful, offensive and abusive conduct, and leading, in the worst case scenario, to delinquency, becomes an expression of discomfort that does not find alternatives for communication. Considered such an emergency, the author offers methodological recommendations and practical tools, such as orientation, counseling, writing cure, in order to promote prevention, favoring education paths to legality, to spread authentic values, sense of justice, responsibility towards others, desire to collaboration and sharing, aiming to a more human and democratic society.

Enhancing Learning Engagement on Minangkabau Traditional Food through Gamified Mobile Quiz

Some ethnic groups are reported not only dealing with the deskilling problems related to domestic coo-king proficiency but starting to lose the traditional food culture due to the impairment of old generation of bequeathing the knowledge of traditional food to the young generations. Nevertheless, teaching traditional knowledge is challenging due to the characteristics of the youth nowadays as digital natives that always adhere to modern technology instead of traditional one. Hence, there is a need to find an approach to teaching implementation which engages the youth in learning Minangkabau traditional food. This study aims to propose gamification as an approach for enhancing learning among young generation in Minangkabau. It focuses on the learning of Minangkabau traditional food using gamification elements in a mobile quiz. This study used methodology that was a part of quantitative, particularly a survey technique using a questionnaire to collect data to measure level of engagement. Finally, we examined the level of user engagement using modified Technology Engagement Model (TEM). Structural Equation Modelling was used to validate the variables which influenced the engagement such as Individual Expectation (IE), Facility Environment (FE), Social Environment (SE), Technology Engagement (TE), and Trust. A total of 160 participants between 17-25 years old were randomly assigned to contribute to this study. The results indicate that gamification which implemented in the mobile quiz application provides positive effects that enhance user engagement. Usefulness of fragmented learning, peer support, and trust were found to be the most significant factors to enhance the gamified quiz engagement.

Social Media: Engaging Language Learning

Most of youth nowadays have a problem of failing to perceive learning English as important as learning other subjects and therefore, slowly losing interest to get engaged in English lessons. Since Instagram, Twitter and other social media have been the main medium for them to express and share their ideas, this paper will discuss how the usage of social media helps in engaging language learners to use the target language in informal contexts. Today, teachers started to realize that some of these internet tools such as Facebook, Instagram, Email, and others are very useful in promoting language skills among students in schools. However, it cannot be assumed that students know the values of these tools in promoting their language learning. This paper will specifically look at Twitter and Instagram, the two major platforms of social media that are widely used among youth nowadays and adopt these mediums as the main agent of engagement for students in using the target language. Thus, instead of teachers looking at the negative side of social media, they should use it in class as a channel for language learning and teaching and direct students to realize social network as a catalyst to improve their English.

Gender Identity Crisis of the Millennial Generation in Malaysia: Special Focus on the Issue of Pengkid

Gender identity crisis among Malaysian youth nowadays is becoming a matter of grave concern. This article is based on a study conducted to explore and understand the perception of the public towards Pengkid, a term used to refer to a female, whose physical and behavioural appearance resembles that of a male. The sexual orientation is also towards other females, i.e., showing a preference for same-sex partners. Pengkid is becoming more visible in society and lately, the term has been associated with social concerns, like, drug and sexually-related problems. This study also aims to develop possible indicators for identifying a Pengkid. A combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods is used. A survey was conducted involving a total of 1,298 samples, representing people in three main districts in Negeri Sembilan, i.e., Seremban, Port Dickson and Rembau. Structured interviews were also conducted with several target groups or subject matter experts, such as religious leaders, academicians, lawyers, medical doctors and social workers as well as a number of Pengkid. The main finding from the research indicates that the level of awareness of the public of the Pengkid problem is high. The research also developed some physical and behavioural indicators for the purpose of identifying Pengkid.

Effect of Loneliness on the Psychological Well-Being of College Students

Loneliness is becoming a fast growing problem among the youth nowadays. There are various reasons that are responsible for loneliness, discussed in this paper. The present study investigates the effect of loneliness on the psychological well-being of college going students. The data was collected on 101 college students who were divided into two groups i.e. Males and Females. They were required to fill a questionnaire through e-mail that had 2 parts. The first part was Ryff’s questionnaire of psychological well-being and the second part was UCLA loneliness scale. The findings of the research revealed that there is a significant negative relationship between loneliness and psychological well-being. Also, the difference between males and females regarding both loneliness and psychological well-being did not come out to be significant.

إعداد شخصية الشباب المسلم لمواجهة مشاكل الجنسية في ضوء القرآن الكريم والأحاديث المختارة <br> PREPARATION OF MUSLIM YOUTH IN FACING SEXUAL ISSUES IN THE LIGHT OF AL-QUR’AN & SELECTED HADITH

Pre-marital pregnancy, fornication, and free mixing between different genders are among the problems faced by Muslim youth nowadays. This paper aims to discuss the personality preparation guidelines in facing sexual activities based on the Story of Prophet Yusuf in al-Qur’an al-Karim as well as selected prophet’s narration in Hadith. The descriptive analysis shows that Qur’an and selected Hadith prepare four dimensions of guidelines which are: spiritual strength, mental strength, emotional strength as well as physical strength. The findings reveal that in terms of spirituality aspect, Muslim youth should be fully conscious of the existence of Allah and think of the bounty divine given by Allah. In terms of mental strength, Muslim youth must have positive thinking and consider the long term effects in this world and next before engaging themselves in the negative activities. Pertaining to emotional strength, Muslim youth should control their anger, and pertaining to physical strength, they need to keep their body healthy. Keywords: Hadith, Muslim youth, personality, prophet Yusuf, sexual issues.Cite as: Ahmad, S.H., Ali, N.B., & Ramli, A. (2017). Preparation of Muslim youth in facing sexual issues in the light of al-Qur’an & selected hadith. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 2(1), 122-133.

Pengaruh Faktor Ekologi Terhadap Resiliensi Remaja

Youth nowadays are increasingly required to have a resiliency in order to prevent disturbance in their developmental task, quality of life, and their future. This research aimed to elaborate youth resiliency and influence of ecological factors on their resiliency. Using quantitative design, this research was conducted during September 2015 – January 2016. Total 120 teenagers were generated through multi-stage random sampling technique. Primary data was collected through survey using researcher-developed questionnaire. Results showed that youth ecological factors such as subjective well-being, internal protective factor (including self-acceptance, environment acceptance, self-confidence, achievement, discipline, self-ability), external protective factors (including parenting, family , school , peer group, and society environment), involvement of children in juvenile delinquency, family income, father’s length of education, administrative areas, and types of schools were associated with youth resiliency. Furthermore, external protective factors (from school, and parenting), and youth internal protective factors have a positive significant effect on youth resiliency. Specific regression analysis the influence family protective factor on youth resiliency showed that moral-religious orientation, cohesion, and achievement orientation have a positive significant effect on youth resiliency.

Increased Materialistic Trends among Youth

Abstract The goal of this qualitative research is to investigate the increased sense of materialism among youth. The main research question is to identify the factors which are causing materialism among youth. The sample of this research included 25 people, age group 18-25 years obtained from students that are enrolled in universities. The interpretive phenomenological approach was taken which was based on semi-structured interviews. The findings revealed that materialistic trends are increasing among youth nowadays. Because thought patterns of youth and societal demands have changed totally. Factors that are increasing materialism include social media, brand consciousness; self-centeredness; fake personality development and desire to be socially accepted. The implications indicate that materialistic trend should stop by controlling the social media possession among youth which is the primary source of enhancing materialism among youth. Keywords: social media, parenting, brand consciousness, society, and lifestyle.