Walton Wider

INTI International University | inti · Business School

Little research has been done to determine whether the pandemic’s impact is strong enough to innovate all of the ASEAN-5 stock indices. The traditional studies of financial epidemiology in regional equities mainly focus on the major global stock markets. This paper utilizes the conventional t-test and the advanced computational power of the Wavelet...

Background : The goal of this review paper is to investigate factors that contribute to project managers' crisis resilience through a systematic review of the literature and bibliometric analysis using VOXviewer. Methods : Using the PRISMA framework for systematic literature, 55 peer-reviewed articles published between 1993 and 2022 that met our cr...

Due to the Zero-COVID policies implemented in China, students have accepted online education for curriculum learning for a considerable period of time. The objective of the current study was to determine the relationship between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, gender, and the online learning effectiveness of emerging adult learners in...

It is crucial to investigate adaptability in the context of COVID-19, as evidence suggests that difficulties posed by adaptability can be exacerbated during times of crisis. International students encounter additional pressures during this period, which might impair their capacity to stay and prosper in a new place. In light of this context, the pu...

The purpose of this preliminary study is, firstly, to identify the most preferred high-impact educational practises (HIPs) among undergraduates and, secondly, to recommend best practises and strategies for implementing HIPs in higher education. This study included 61 undergraduates from a variety of degree programmes that implemented HIPs in one ge...

The concepts of halal and haram in Islamic law are intended to protect humankind's general well-being. However, previous research focusing on halal cosmetics purchasing behaviour is very limited. Most of the previous research generally focuses on consumers' purchasing intentions towards halal cosmetic products instead of their relative purchasing b...

The Movement Control Order (MCO) enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly altered the social life and behaviour of the Malaysian population. Because the society is facing huge social and economic challenges that need individuals to work together to solve, prosocial behaviour is regarded as one of the most important social determinants. B...

COVID-19 has significantly affected the mental health of adolescents, thus increasing the emotional distress among them. Studies have reported that heavy Internet use during COVID-19 was linked with poor mental health among adolescents. Additionally, it was found that personality factors are linked with mental health in general. Although past liter...

Due to significant social and economic upheavals brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a great deal of psychological pain. Google Trends data have been seen as a corollary measure to assess population-wide trends via observing trends in search results. Judicious analysis of Google Trends data can have both analytical and predictive capaciti...

With the pervasive use of social media (SM) in organizations, it is regarded as a relevant driver that can influence an employee’s job performance. This study fills in the gap that extends the job performance concept by discovering the role of SM in innovative performance in introducing new ideas beyond standard specifications to produce novel and...

Social media applications have increasingly become a valuable platform for personal communication and knowledge sharing in working life. Several researchers have considered the direct role of social media usage in influencing job performance. However, limited studies explore how social media use may impact employees’ job performance, especially in...

This objective of this study was to examine the effects of communication, training and development, and transformational leadership on employee engagement during COVID-19 in Malaysia. Four hundred individuals were recruited, and data were analyzed using partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). Communication, training and develop...

The Chinese society has paid greater attention to college students’ entrepreneurship since 2015 when colleges and universities first introduced entrepreneurship education. How to improve the entrepreneurial intention of college students and find the factors that affect the entrepreneurial intention of students are major research topics of many stud...

Many studies have suggested that Chinese English majors tend to have a lower level of motivation to learn translation due to the conventional teaching method still prevalent in many a translation classroom. In this regard, from the standpoint of instruction, a translation course design that employed motivation as a central concept of the design may...

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a decline in employee satisfaction. It would appear that ensuring the contentment of one's workforce in their place of employment is the most significant obstacle that companies must overcome. Therefore, this study examined the effects of wages and welfare, relations with superiors, and learning and d...

The study aims to examine the moderating effect of self-efficacy on supervisory support and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). An individual’s self-efficacy is defined as their belief in their own ability to successfully complete a goal or task, which influences their motivation, persistence, and decision-making. This study is based on the...

Employee performance plays a crucial role in the productivity of organizations, especially in the hospitality industry in Malaysia. This work performance is influenced by leadership style, and finding the type of leadership style that is suitable to apply to employees is crucial, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Transformational le...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact not only on healthcare systems and economic threats but also on relationships. Due to the massive measures of the Movement Control Order, such as social distancing, strictly limited physical activities, and making adjustments to working from home—merged with the pandemic’s fear—romantic partners may face...

In this era of globalization, pragmatic competence plays a vital role in cross-cultural communication. The objective of this study is to investigate whether location is a key factor influencing Chinese EFL undergraduates’ pragmatic competence in English letter writing by comparing urban and suburban universities. This study adopted a descriptive re...

This study examines the factors influencing government employees’ cybersecurity behavior in Malaysia. The country is considered the most vulnerable in Southeast Asia. Applying the protection motivation theory, this study addresses the gap by investigating how government employees behave toward corresponding cyberrisks and threats. Using partial lea...

Cyber and information security (CIS) is an issue of national and international interest. Despite sophisticated security systems and extensive physical countermeasures to combat cyber-attacks, organisations are vulnerable due to the involvement of the human factor. Humans are regarded as the weakest link in cybersecurity systems as development in di...

Viral epidemics have surfaced frequently over the past quarter-century, with multiple manifestations of psychological distress. This study sought to establish the psychometric properties of the Malay version of SAVE-9 among healthcare workers. A total of 203 healthcare workers across Malaysia participated in the research. The Malay version of SAVE-...

Objectives: psychological flexibility is a crucial construct highly correlated with psychological wellness. There is a need for a tool to measure psychological flexibility in order to accurately ascertain the effects of treatment. The existing industry standard, the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II), has issues with conflating psycho...

Purpose-The role of leaders in ensuring excellent organizational performance should parallel with adequate innovativeness. The purpose of this study is to investigate the positive development of the selected industry (MIEL) on effective leadership in conducting projects and embracing innovativeness to lead the workforce. Design/methodology/approach...

Employees' capacity to deal with unfavourable circumstances, such as job intensification, organisational change, and work stress, will be enhanced if they have resilience. Despite an increase in study interest in the topic of employee resilience, little is known about how essential social support at work, such as supportive leadership and co-worker...

The university needs to endure some drastic changes in teaching and learning due to the challenges and changes in educational system parallel to the Revolutionary Industry 4.0 and pandemic Covid-19. Besides, the implementation of co-curriculum activities and mobility program ought to be streamlined so that the aim of university to produce students...

Malaysia has been implementing blended learning into the teaching and learning practices. However, the implementation of non-academic activities including mobility program is still taking place in the conventional way. In the era of Revolution Industry 4.0, mobility program should have a new approach using technology as the medium for implementatio...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in much psychological distress amongst healthcare workers, primarily those serving in COVID-19 hospitals. This can lead to high levels of burnout, as healthcare workers experience increasingly challenging working environments. However, it is crucial to examine the factors underlying depression and anxiety, specifi...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the impact of the pandemic on micro-enterprises in the manufacturing sector in terms of business operations and production in Klang Valley. Design/Methodology: An online self-administered questionnaire was distributed randomly to 121 micro-enterprises focusing on Klang Valley's manufacturing sectors. The ques...

Since the reform of the Chinese college title granting system in 2017, Chinese lecturers have been allowed to have different self-identification as researchers. This study aimed to investigate Chinese English lecturers’ self-identification as researchers and whether gender, age, academic qualification, title, teaching load, and top journal publicat...

Many studies revealed that students have difficulties in learning English communicative competence and some are even resistant in learning the language. This study aimed to examine the effects of the STAD method in students’ motivation towards learning English communicative competence. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design lasting for 8 wee...

This study aims to investigate the effects of work-life balance, work environment, and reward and compensation on employee retention in Malaysia. A total of 400 questionnaires were collected online from employees within the service industry in Malaysia. Partial least square structure equation modeling was used to test the model and hypotheses. The...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of after sales service (ASS), brand equity (BE), environmental awareness (EA), and product pricing (PP) towards consumer purchase intention (CPI) of green home appliance. Data were collected from 150 Penang, Malaysia citizen who were age from 18 to 60 via convenient sampling method analyse...

The COVID-19 crisis has had repercussions on global mental wellbeing. This study aimed: (1) to identify the mediating role of psychological process variables, namely psychological mindedness, psychological mindfulness, and psychological inflexibility on the relationship between dysfunctional coping and psychopathologies in Indonesian undergraduate...

COVID-19 in Malaysia has significantly affected the higher education system of the country and increased the level of distress among university students. Empirical evidence proposed that environment quality is associated with university students’ life satisfaction during COVID-19. It was found that hope and optimism are linked with greater life sat...

Introduction: Performance anxiety is a transdiagnostic construct similar in both sports and clinical medical examinations. Given that acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and other similar therapies have transdiagnostic evidence in improving the performance of athletes, the same approach can be adopted for medical students in improving their per...

The objective of this study was to investigate effects of the Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) method in enhancing college students’ English Communicative Competence. This quantitative study adopted a quasi- experimental design. The sample chosen intact groups consisting of 80 first-year non-English majors from two different classes of Chi...

The third wave of COVID-19 in Malaysia has significantly strained the healthcare system of the country and increased the level of burnout among the healthcare workers (HCWs) in the country. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the various factors associated with burnout among HCWs. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 150 HWCs in Kota Kin...

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic struck the globe and disrupted various aspects of psychological wellbeing, more so in frontline workers. Research on assessing the seroprevalence of COVID-19 has been scarce; in addition, there are limited studies assessing the association between the seroprevalence of COVID-19 and psychological distress. Therefore, t...

A genre-based method informed by Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) has been proven effective in enhancing translation quality between different language pairs, but there has been limited research on its effectiveness in enhancing translation quality from Chinese into English. This research aimed to investigate the effects of utilizin...

Pragmatic competence, as an essential part of communicative competence, plays a vital role in people’s daily communication, especially cross-cultural communication. This study aims to investigate Chinese EFL undergraduates’ pragmatic competence in English letter writing according to gender and faculty, and explore four EFL lecturers’ perceptions on...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had serious impacts on psychological health globally. How�ever, very little is currently known regarding the link between fear of COVID-19 with psychological health and various coping styles, especially among oil and gas workers. This study aims to assess the prevalence of depression and anxiety among oil and gas workers,...

The globalization trend during the Covid-19 pandemic showed that there are more consumers willing to shop online than visit physical stores. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of convenience, service quality, and social factors on consumer online grocery shopping behavior in Singapore during the Covid-19 pandemic. Data were c...

As of 11 October 2020, Sabah comprised a quarter of all COVID19 cases reported in Malaysia since the start of the pandemic last January 2020. In this pandemic, nurses serve in vital roles to mitigate the effects of COVID-19. This study aims to explore the nurses’ preparedness in managing the COVID-19 outbreak situation in Sabah, Malaysia, examining...

Aims This study aims to investigate 5 types of work environment influencing nurses' caring behavior, namely (i) participation in hospital affairs, (ii) foundations for quality of care, (iii) manager ability, leadership, and support of nurses, (iv) staffing and resource adequacy, and (v) nurse-physician relations. Design This research is a cross-se...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the determinants of purchasing intention of energy efficient appliances among Malaysian households. Consumer behavior, particularly when purchasing non-environmentally friendly products, contributes significantly towards environmental problems and climate change. This study adopts the theory of planned be...

Background: The uniqueness of nursing profession contributes to the development in knowledge, and experience along with increasing age, education, economy, and position as well as forming a unique gender role throughout the life of this profession. Thus, the development and advancement of the demographic characteristics of nurses developed while in...

Mobile learning provides students to learn anywhere without the need of physical classroom. The main objective of this study is to investigate whether the utilization of Telegram app can enhance students’ ESL writing skills. The second objective is to investigate whether the utilization of Telegram app can enhance students’ perceptions towards ESL...

The relationship between school principals' communication styles and the school climate has an impact on positive nurturing of the school climate. This research was designed to study the relationship between Tamil primary school principals' communication styles and the school climate. This quantitative study has employed the descriptive research de...

Several studies indicated that Malaysians are less patriotic because they do not engage actively in patriotic activities. The objectives of this study are to investigate the level of patriotism among undergraduates according to gender, ethnicity and faculties of studies. In addition, this study also investigates the correlation between students' le...

Recent studies suggest that emerging adulthood is culturally constructed and therefore experienced differently across countries. There is a lack of research on this subject in developing and culturally diverse countries, and this is the reason why the transition to adulthood in multi-ethnic Malaysia deserves an empirical inquiry. The aim of this st...

This study aims to identify perceived adult status and to explore the criteria for adulthood of young people in Sabah (East Malaysia). The differences in such criteria based on gender and student status are also examined. Data collected from 208 respondents were analyzed via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA...

The current study aims to triangulate the relationships among internet addiction, grit personality and academic procrastination. It further examines the role of grit either as a mediator or a moderator in the effects of internet addiction on procrastination. Purposive sampling and survey methods were applied in recruiting 430 undergraduate students...

Perceived social support is associated with a better quality of romantic relationship. Potential sources of support in a romantic relationship are members of a close social network, such as friends and parents. Although perceived support from both parents and friends is essential for developing and supporting a romantic relationship, there is a gap...

Article History Keywords ESL reading comprehension HOTS LOTS Chinese students Teachers" views. Several studies have indicated that ESL students in China are weak in answering comprehension questions which are based on Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). The objectives of this study were to investigate students" overall performance in answering LOT...

The objective of the current study is to explore the emerging adulthood experiences among young people in Sabah. As no similar investigation has been conducted, a semi-structured interview using open-ended questions has been utilized in the current study. A total of five emerging adult ages between 22 and 28-year-old has been recruited in this inve...

A mediation model was proposed to analyse the relationship between parental attachment and social adjustment. Specifically, this study aims to contribute and fill a gap in the emerging adulthood literature by analysing the mediating role of emerging adulthood dimensions (identity exploration, instability/negativity, self-focused, possibilities/expe...

Research on how emerging adults can be psychologically healthy and increase their life satisfaction is considered lacking. Additionally, there are some adaptive resources such as future time perspective and proactive coping skills that help emerging adults to feel greater satisfaction with life which results in successful transition to adulthood (M...

Research on how emerging adults can be psychologically healthy and increase their life satisfaction is considered lacking (Dwivedi & Rastogi, 2017). Additionally, there are some adaptive resources such as proactive coping skills that can help emerging adults to feel greater satisfaction with life (Masten et al., 2004). Therefore, this study aims to...

This study aims to examine the mediating effects of five different types of employees’ trust on the relationship between employees’ organizational tenure and their organizational citizenship behaviour. Using data obtained from 163 employees from banking organization located in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Structural equation modelling was used to assess t...

In this era of globalization, the society encounters complex changes whether socioculturally or socioeconomically. This change brings about a shift in lifestyle and it is affecting the society, especially those who are imprudent financially. People who lack knowledge in financial management and at the same time are irresponsible in using credit car...

Purpose – Building upon attachment theory and emerging theory, the current study was aimed at examining the effect of peer attachment in predicting adjustment to life in university among freshmen in a public unirvsity in East Malaysia. Furthermore, it sought to examine the influence of gender and perceived-adult status as moderators of the relation...

This study examines the predictor of parental attachment towards emerging adulthood (EA) experiences among 548 undergraduate students (202 males, 346 females, and mean age of 20.8 years) aged between 18 and 25 in East Malaysia. The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA) was used to measure the components of parental attachment (Trust, Commu...

This study aims to investigate the most dominant personality and the relationship between birth order and Big – Five personality among Psychology Students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Participants (n=116) completed online questionnaires measuring birth order, and the Big Five personality taken from the IPIP sample test (IPIP, 2006) which used hier...

A scant research has examined the links between the degree of family expressiveness and relation to birth order. In this preliminary study, we examined a sample of 45 Chinese young adults and grouped them into three different birth orders (15 first-born, 15 middle-born, and 15 late born). The Chinese young adults completed the Family Expressiveness...