Siti Nor Yaacob

• B.Sc. (Human Development), M.Sc. (Child Development & Family Studies), PhD. (Anthropology & Sociology)
• Professor (Associate) at Universiti Putra Malaysia

Early adulthood is the transitional period between adolescence and adult life. As with other general young adultpopulation, university students carry along several of life’s issues such as a personal and social adjustment,academic and career concerns, stress and other related psychosomatic issues which may lead to an unhealthymental condition. Thes...

The study examined the moderating role of self-esteem in the relationship between depression and bullying among teenagers. The participants of the study were 242 teenagers aged 13 to 16 years, from selected secondary schools in Selangor, Malaysia. Self-esteem was measured with the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, while teenage depression was measured w...

The present study highlights the significance of job satisfaction as one of the most important work factors on W-FC and F-WC. This paper also examines the effects of one of the essential family factor which is family satisfaction on W-FC and F-WC. The respondents for this study consist of 198 married female nurses working in public hospitals in Shi...

The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between parenting styles and academic achievement among adolescents in Iran. The respondents were 382 high school adolescents (251 female and 131 male) in the age range of 15 to 18 years old from selected high schools in Iran. The instrument used to measure parenting style was the p...

Although delinquency is universal, few studies examined it from an Asian perspective, and even fewer considered adolescents of divorced families in Iran. The current study examined whether correlates of delinquency among western adolescents are similarly effective for predicting delinquency among adolescents from divorced families in the Mashhad ci...

This study reviews several empirical researches which highlight the effect of post-divorce parental conflict as one of the most important factors on adolescents’ delinquency in divorced families. Research consistently shows that parental conflict affects parental relationship and this poor parental quality may transfer into poor parent-child relati...

This study aims to examine the moderating effect of self-control in the relationship between peer affiliation and antisocial behavior in a sample of 395 adolescents aged 13 to 18 years old in Tehran city in Iran. Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA; Armsden & Greenberg, 1987), Self-Control Scale (Grasmick et al., 1993) and modified of Ant...

The main purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between personality traits and severity of wife abuse among Iranian women in Tehran city in Iran. The study involved 398 women who sought treatment at 4 selected hospitals by using multistage stratified sampling technique. Conflict Tactic Scale (CTS2) and Five-Factor Personality Inve...

The main purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between parental attachment, inter-parental conflict and self-efficacy among 374 college students aged 17 to 19 years old in Iran. The probability proportional to size sampling technique was used to obtain sample size. The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment, the Children’s Percep...

Suicide is an epidemic issue worldwide and Asian countries are of no exception. In Malaysia, adolescent suicide constituted 10% of the overall reported suicide cases. Aforementioned, the current study examines Snyder’s theory of hope to understand suicidal risk among Malaysian adolescents. A total of 1441 adolescents were recruited using a multista...

The present study highlights the significance of gender role orientation as one of the most important individual factors on WIF and FIW. Furthermore, this paper also examines the effects of some of the essential personal backgrounds such as age, job experience and duration of marriage on WIF and FIW. This study consists of 198 married female nurses...

This study aimed to examine the relationship between religiosity and internal developmental assets amongstMalay adolescents in Malaysia. A total of 737 school-going Malay adolescents were recruited by usingmultistage cluster sampling method from four states (Selangor, Kedah, Kelantan and Johor) of PeninsularMalaysia. The results of the study indica...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between low self-control, peer delinquency and aggression among adolescents. This cross-sectional study was conducted in Selangor, Malaysia among 413 adolescents. The participants were selected from 12 secondary schools by using Multistage Cluster Sampling Technique. Self-Control Scale (Gra...

This present study aims to describe the level of overall and domains-specific life satisfaction and to determine how differences in demographic variables can influence life satisfaction among adolescents in Selangor, Malaysia. The sample of the study consisted of 416 school-going adolescents, aged between 14 to 17 years old, who were selected throu...

Children of divorced family are at greater risk to divorce themselves in later years. In an attempt to understand the process of “transmission of divorce” across generations, the current study examined the potential moderation role of gender in the relationship between inter-parental conflict and attitudes towards marriage among adolescents from di...

Although parental warmth has been shown to be related to children's social competence, the mediating role of preadolescent children's emotion regulation in this context has been less explored, particularly in Asian cultures. Thus, this study examined the role of emotion regulation as a mediator in the relationship between parental warmth (i.e., pat...

A new scale to measure core social motives was developed based on the BUC(K)ET framework (Belong, Understand, Control, Esteem, and Trust). The scale was completed by 1,516 university students from seven countries: Australia, the United States, New Zealand, the Philippines, Malaysia, China (Macao), and Austria. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysi...

Child-rearing practices can either negatively or positively influence the psychosocial outcomes of their children. Negative psychological outcomes such as total difficulties can result in peer relationship problem, hyperactivity, emotional symptoms, and conduct problem among children. Thus, this study aims to examine the relations between parental...

Suicide phenomenon among young generation has become a leading cause of death especially among adolescents. In Asian countries, suicidal rate is at an alarming state in which it has contributed around 60% of the world suicide cases. In order to prevent suicidal behavior, suicidal ideation need to be investigated as it happened prior any suicidal be...

Exposure to negative life events can be extremely stressful for adolescents from divorced families and effective coping strategy can help to alleviate their stress. The current study examined the relationship between negative life events, coping strategy, and mental health problem among adolescents from divorced families. This study also explored t...

Excessive stress during adolescence might contribute to various problems. Given that female adolescents tend to perceive more stress than male adolescents, the present study aimed to determine the relationships between parent-adolescent relationship, prosocial behaviour, academic self-efficacy, and stress among female adolescents in Malacca, Malays...

The present study was conducted to determine the relationships between child temperament and anxiety with child-parent relationship as mediator among children in childcare centers in Selangor, Malaysia. A total of 319 mothers with children aged between 3 to 6 years old were participated in the study. The findings revealed that both child’s sociabil...

Attitudes towards marriage in adolescence may influence the relationship quality in later years. There exist many measures of attitudes towards marriage which were validated among adolescents from two-parent family in the Western context. There is a need to validate measure of attitudes towards marriage in different countries. This study examined t...

This paper aimed to examine the predicting role of social support (family and friends) and academic stress on life satisfaction among adolescents in Malaysia. A total of 359 secondary school students (mean of age= 16.26; 133 male adolescents, 37.0%) in Selangor were selected with cluster sampling method. Self-administrated questionnaires with exist...

Psychological aggression against wives is a social problem in all societies. To analyze possible predictive factors of psychological aggression against wives, this study examined 398 women selected through multi-stage stratified sampling techniques. Research participants responded to the Conflict Tactics Scale, questions about childhood insult expe...

Mothers of Thalassemic children are often confronted with stressful life associated with the illness of the child as well as other related stressors. Consequently, these mothers' quality of life is impacted. This is a cross-sectional study involving 372 mothers who have children with Thalassemia that undergo routine blood transfusions every month f...

Factors influencing academic performance among adolescents are the hot topic of all time. The present study investigated the relationships between parent-adolescent relationship, academic self-efficacy and academic performance among adolescents in Malacca, Malaysia. One step ahead, the present study further examined the mediating role of academic s...

Suicide has been increasing at an alarming rate throughout the world including our nation. Adolescents have become one of the high risk groups for suicidality. Thus, it is important to explore suicidal ideation especially among adolescents in order to curb this issue. This study aimed to investigate stress, life satisfaction, satisfaction with pare...

Background: Suicide has become a serious worldwide mental health problem, including Asian countries. Suicidal ideation happens prior to the actual suicidal behaviour; thus, identifying the roots of suicidal ideation is vital. This study investigated the relationships between parental closeness, self-efficacy and suicidal ideation among adolescents...

This study was designed to examine the relationships between problem-solving skills, hardiness, and perceived stress and to test the moderating role of hardiness in the relationship between problem-solving skills and perceived stress among 500 undergraduates from Malaysian public universities. The analyses showed that undergraduates with poor probl...

Smoking is the biggest threat to public health, and it remains a serious cause of death in the world. It even causes acute and chronic diseases in passive smokers. Remarkably, the age of the onset of cigarette smoking is decreasing. Therefore, it is essential to increase our knowledge concerning the attitudes among adolescents toward cigarette smok...

Smoking is one of the more common preventable threats to public health, and it remains a serious cause of death around the world. Remarkably, the mean age of the onset of cigarette smoking is decreasing. Therefore, it is necessary to increase our knowledge concerning the attitude among high school students towards cigarette smoking. The present stu...

Based on the theories of uses and gratifications, and self-determination, we examined a model linking computer-mediated communication (CMC) attributes to psychological need satisfaction in online friendships and to life satisfaction in a sample of school-aged adolescents (N = 1572). Our findings suggest direct links between media orientations (i.e....

Recent evidence suggests that suicidal ideation has increased among Malaysian college students over the past two decades; therefore, it is essential to increase our knowledge concerning the etiology of suicidal ideation among Malaysian college students. This study was conducted to examine the relationships between problem-solving skills, hopelessne...

Previous research has consistently found that divorce is associated with psychological distress. This study expands existing research by considering age, education, employment, income, length of divorce, number of children, and economic hardship as predictors of postdivorce psychological distress among divorced women in Iran. This study examines 80...

Recent evidence suggests that suicidal ideation is increased among university students, it is essential to increase our knowledge concerning the etiology of suicidal ideation among university students. This study was conducted to examine the relationships between problem-solving skills appraisal, hardiness, and suicidal ideation among university st...

The occurrence of suicide has become a serious phenomenon throughout the world. This study investigated the relationships between peer relationship satisfaction, self-efficacy and adolescents' suicidal ideation in Malaysia. The mediation effect of self-efficacy on the relationship between peer relationship satisfaction and adolescents' suicidal ide...

The main purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between parental attachment, coping efficacy and antisocial behavior among adolescents from divorced families. Respondents were 170 secondary school students aged 13 to 17, selected using purposive sampling technique. Self-administered questionnaire was used in data collection. Adole...

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of inter-parental conflict on college student's self-efficacy. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 374 randomly selected college students of Medical Science University aged 17 to 19 years old in Hamadan, Iran. The Inventory of Children's Perception of Inter-parental Conflict Scale and the G...

Background This study examined the mediating role of negative automatic thoughts in the relationship between depression and suicidal behaviour in a sample of at-risk Malaysian adolescents.MethodA total of 1441 adolescents were initially recruited via multistage cluster sampling. Subsequently, 294 at-risk adolescents were selected for further analys...

Online self-disclosure and online communication are two communication behaviours that, on the basis of prior research and theory, would appear to be related both to one another and to psychological need satisfaction. This study explored these relationships among a sample of 190 secondary school students drawn from a district in Malaysia. Respondent...

Accessible summary The relevance of the study of happiness and stress in nurses has been emphasized. In this sense, the intelligent use of hardiness is enable nurses to cope better with stress and contribute to being happier. This study aimed to examine the relationship among hardiness, perceived stress, and happiness in nurses. Moreover, we examin...

Suicide is a serious and growing public health problem, and it remains a serious cause of death in the world; therefore, it is essential to increase our knowledge concerning the etiology of suicide among undergraduate students. Previous studies have shown that perceived stress increases vulnerability to suicidal ideation. However, factors that may...

Nursing is a stressful occupation, even when compared with other health professions; therefore, it is necessary to advance our knowledge about the protective factors that can help reduce stress among nurses. The present study sought to investigate the associations among problem-solving skills and hardiness with perceived stress in nurses. The parti...

House & The Euroregional Center for Applied Psychology 51 Locus of control, problem-solving skills appraisal as predictors of waste prevention behaviors Given that waste generation is a devastating problem, it is necessary that we advance our knowledge about the etiology of waste prevention behaviors. Accordingly, this study sought to increase the...

The present study examined the mediating role of adolescent's anxiety to perform social skills on the relationships between perceived parental attachment and self-efficacy among 374 Iranian adolescents aged 17 to 19 years old. Survey results showed that parental attachment was significantly related to an adolescent's self-efficacy (p<0.05). Moreove...

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between sub-components of emotional intelligence and the adolescent's aggression among Iranian high schools students in Tehran, Iran. Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a set of abilities such as conception, emotion appraisal and expression, emotion management and regulation, and emotion utiliza...

Given that waste generation is a devastating problem, it is necessary that we advance our knowledge about the etiology of waste prevention behaviors. Accordingly, this study sought to increase the existing literature of waste prevention behaviors by examining the relationships among the locus of control, problem-solving confidence, approach-avoidan...

As fathering gains increasing attention in parenting studies, the same instrument is always used to measure fathering and mothering concurrently and comparisons are made without prior establishment of measurement invariance. It is common that parenting scales possess different factor structures across different cultural settings. This study aimed t...

The present study assessed the mediating effect of self-esteem in the relationship between stress and substance abuse among adolescents. The participants of the study were 352 adolescents, 54.5% males and 45.5% females aged 13 to18 years, from selected secondary schools in Somolu, Lagos, Nigeria. Substance abuse was measured with the Drug Abuse Scr...

The aim of this paper is two folds, these includes redefining children's social competence and its relationship with authoritarian parenting. Literatures dating back from January 1969 to April 2010 were explored using key words. The paper argued that situational contexts must be taken into consideration in any attempt to define social competence. T...

The main purpose of the present study was to determine the predictors of delinquency among 376 male high school adolescents aged between 15 and 18 years old from divorced families. Specifically, post-divorce parental conflict, economic hardship and parent-child relationship were hypothesized as predictors of delinquency. Results of this study indic...

This study aimed to examine the life satisfaction of Malaysian adolescents in metropolitan and urbanized cities. The respondents were 441 school-going adolescents, aged 13 to 17 from selected secondary schools and sampled using multistage cluster sampling with Probability Proportionate to Size sampling (PPS) technique. Results of the study indicate...

Theory and research have shown that parents have significant influence on their children's social outcome. The present study was therefore conducted to determine the relationship between parenting style and social responsibility of adolescents residing in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. A total of 331 (male =119, female 212) students from four high schools...

The purpose of this study was to determine the correlates of self-esteem in a sample of 800 adolescents of divorced families aged 15 to 18 years old using probability proportionate to size sampling technique. The findings indicated that post-divorce parental conflict, maternal distress, economic hardship, and parent-child relationship were signific...

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between post-divorce parental conflict, parent-child relationship with delinquency in a sample of 800 adolescents of divorced families aged 15 to 18 years old using probability proportionate of size sampling technique. The findings indicated that post-divorce parental conflict and parent-c...

The current study examined the mediating role of self-esteem in the relationship between loneliness and depression among teenagers. The participants of the study were 242 teenagers (119 males and 123 females) aged 13 to 16 years, from selected secondary schools in the central zone (Selangor) of Malaysia (mean age = 14.67 years; SD = 1.27). Teenage...

Factors influencing students' achievement or failure have always been a basic issue in education. However, despite the extensive line of research conducted and heavy budgets spent, there are still huge numbers of students who perform poorly in academic achievement.Thus, the present study aimed to examine the relationships between parental school in...

This study set out to determine the relationship between family processes (i.e. parenting behavior, family values and family competency) and antisocial behavior among adolescents (m = 14.42 years) from urban, single-mother families in Malaysia. The sample comprised 240 Malay single mother-adolescent dyads from four states in Peninsula Malaysia. Fin...

The current study examined the relationship between bullying and depression among teenagers. The participants of the study were 242 teenagers (119 males and 123 females) aged between 13 and 17 years selected secondary schools in Selangor, Malaysia (mean age = 14.67 years; SD = 1.27).Teenage depression was measured with from Children Depression Inve...

The present study highlights the significance of work support (supervisor and coworker support) on work-family conflict. Furthermore, this paper also examines the effects of family support (husband and family members/relatives support) on work-family conflict. This study examines 198 married female nurses in Shiraz-Iran. The findings revealed that...

This influence of gender, race, age and personal belief on adolescent’s sexual knowledge was examined. The respondents for the study were 860 school–going adolescents aged 13 to 18 from urbanization city in Peninsular Malaysia. Data were collected by using self-administered questionnaire. A cultural sensitive sexual knowledge scale was developed an...

The current study examined the predictors of depression in peer relationship (bullying, victimization and pro-social behaviour), using 242 teenage sample aged between 13-17 years (mean age = 14.67 years; std.dev = 1.27). The Children Depression Inventory (CDI) (Kovac, 1985) was used to measure adolescent depression. The Peer Relationship Questionna...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between personality and loneliness on mental health among undergraduates at Malaysian Universities. A total of 1468 respondents were recruited from five Universities using the multistage cluster sampling. Mental health was measured by 12 items in the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) designe...

The current study examined the degree of relationships between loneliness, stress and selfesteem with depression among adolescents. The respondents were 1407 secondary school adolescents aged between 13 to 17 years old from selected states in Malaysia. Data were collected by using a self-administered questionnaire. Adolescent depression was measure...

The major purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of Reiki therapy in reducing level of adolescents in Tehran, Iran. An instrument for data collection was CDI. The total number of samples is (65).The age of the respondents was 12-17 years. There was significant difference in pre-test and post-test of Reiki (t=5.99, p

The major purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy in reducing level of adolescents in Tehran, Iran. An instrument for data collection was CDI. The total number of samples is (63).The age of the respondents was 12-17 years. There was significant difference in pre-test and post-test of CBT (t=16.26, p

The quality marriage that promotes satisfaction, happiness and peacefulness is dreamed by every married couple. Even though a lot has been studied about marital quality, this concept remains a mystery. This correlational study aims to determine the influence of personality on the marital quality amongst the Chinese in Sandakan, Sabah. A cluster sam...