Sociometric Status of Social Work Student in Malaysia

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume II, Issue XII, December 2018 | ISSN 2454–6186

Sociometric Status of Social Work Student in Malaysia

M. Nadhrah¹, R. Normala², C. Azlini³, Z.M. Lukman⁴, M.Y. Kamal⁵

^1,2,3,4,5Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu Malaysia

Abstract—The study conducted following explanatory study with the intent to discover the facilitative and restrictive factors of undergraduate social work student involvement in social work student organizations. Social work student organizations can provide supplemental experiences for students for further shape understanding and implementation of the social work profession’s core values. The total samples are 157 social work students from University Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA). Factor Analysis (FA) has been applied in this study by using XLSTAT for further analysis. In FA, there are 4 most suitable variables that is >0.8 for factor analysis. The analyzing data of Correlation Matrix (r) was applied to know the relationship between membership status of PMKS and factor involvement in PMKS. After correlation matrix, Descriptive Statistic was performed to summarize the data such as mean by using simple statistics or charts. The method in this study can help the current social work student involvement in PMKS.

Keywords: involvement, PMKS, organization, social work, UniSZA

I. INTRODUCTION

In general, student involvement refers to the physical and psychological energy that student devotes to the academic experience. Student involvement were categorized mainly by two concepts which are the amount of physical energy students exert and the amount of psychological energy they put into their university experience (Astin, 1984) [1]. The relationship between students learning the core values of social work in the classroom and how they implement the core values through involvement into any organization is studied. The facilitative and restrictive factors will better equip social work student organizations to engage social work students in activities that promote the six core values of social. These six core values are able to help in solving such issues like rights, obligations and tenure of headship, teacher-accountability, pupil power, parental rights and involvement in school life, and the standing functions and composition of governing bodies [2].

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