Financial constraints and marital adjustments among married postgraduate students in Malaysia

Combining marital life with academic pursuit arguably seems a marriage of inconvenience. It is even more difficult when the students also need to work for their financial support. Nonetheless, it may offer no tenable grounds for non-pursuance of either; based on their seemingly mutual exclusivity. T...

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Main Author:	Adewale, Abideen Adeyemi
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	HG Finance HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/26776/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/26776/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/26776/1/Sabah_Conference_Paper.pdf

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spelling	iium-267762013-07-12T08:00:10Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/26776/ Financial constraints and marital adjustments among married postgraduate students in Malaysia Adewale, Abideen Adeyemi HG Finance HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform HQ The family. Marriage. Woman Combining marital life with academic pursuit arguably seems a marriage of inconvenience. It is even more difficult when the students also need to work for their financial support. Nonetheless, it may offer no tenable grounds for non-pursuance of either; based on their seemingly mutual exclusivity. The concern for this study therefore, derives from the various adjustment issues that married students are faced with in their academic sojourn that may be due to their financial constraints. In this regards, data were elicited from the sampled postgraduate students of the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and International Islamic Universities (IIUM) to investigate the dimension of, and the relative impact of identified demographic factors especially their financial situation on their marital adjustments. Elicited by the need to fill an apparent quantitative research gap in this regards, particularly in a cosmopolitan institution as UPM and IIUM, the standard and hierarchical multiple regression was adopted in this study to capture various relationships among the latent and structural variables of interest. This was based on data collected via a survey questionnaire administered on sampled postgraduate respondents who met certain afore set criteria. Contingent upon the findings of the study, recommendations were offered. 2009-07 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/26776/1/Sabah_Conference_Paper.pdf Adewale, Abideen Adeyemi (2009) Financial constraints and marital adjustments among married postgraduate students in Malaysia. In: Southeast Asia Psychology Conference (SEAP) 2009, 9 - 11 July 2009, University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia. http://www.ums.edu.my/
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topic	HG Finance HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
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description	Combining marital life with academic pursuit arguably seems a marriage of inconvenience. It is even more difficult when the students also need to work for their financial support. Nonetheless, it may offer no tenable grounds for non-pursuance of either; based on their seemingly mutual exclusivity. The concern for this study therefore, derives from the various adjustment issues that married students are faced with in their academic sojourn that may be due to their financial constraints. In this regards, data were elicited from the sampled postgraduate students of the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and International Islamic Universities (IIUM) to investigate the dimension of, and the relative impact of identified demographic factors especially their financial situation on their marital adjustments. Elicited by the need to fill an apparent quantitative research gap in this regards, particularly in a cosmopolitan institution as UPM and IIUM, the standard and hierarchical multiple regression was adopted in this study to capture various relationships among the latent and structural variables of interest. This was based on data collected via a survey questionnaire administered on sampled postgraduate respondents who met certain afore set criteria. Contingent upon the findings of the study, recommendations were offered.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Adewale, Abideen Adeyemi
author_facet	Adewale, Abideen Adeyemi
author_sort	Adewale, Abideen Adeyemi
title	Financial constraints and marital adjustments among married postgraduate students in Malaysia
title_short	Financial constraints and marital adjustments among married postgraduate students in Malaysia
title_full	Financial constraints and marital adjustments among married postgraduate students in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Financial constraints and marital adjustments among married postgraduate students in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Financial constraints and marital adjustments among married postgraduate students in Malaysia
title_sort	financial constraints and marital adjustments among married postgraduate students in malaysia
publishDate	2009
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/26776/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/26776/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/26776/1/Sabah_Conference_Paper.pdf
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Financial constraints and marital adjustments among married postgraduate students in Malaysia

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