Browsing by Author "Nur Shakira Mohd Nasir"

Family communication patterns (FCP) play a significant role in shaping various aspects of children's development, including their educational trajectories. Research indicates that the way families communicate can significantly influence children’s inclination to stay in school or drop out. Therefore, this study will investigate the impact of family communication patterns on school dropout intention among Norol Iman Chroy Metry High School (NICHS) students in Cambodia. This study is guided by six objectives: (1) To identify the level of conversation orientation and conformity orientation among Norol Iman Chroy Metry High School (NICHS) students, (2) To measure the level of academic resilience among NICHS students, (3) To determine the level of school dropout intention among NICHS students, (4) To determine the relationship between conversation orientation, conformity orientation, academic resilience and school dropout intention among NICHS students, (5) To identify the mediating effect of academic resilience on the relationship between conversation orientation and school dropout intention among NICHS students, and (6) To identify the mediating effect of academic resilience on the relationship between conformity orientation and school dropout intention among NICHS students. This study employed a quantitative research design, using a survey method with a questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. Through the use of simple random sampling, a total of 243 students participated in this study. Findings show that family communication patterns play an important role in shaping academic resilience and school dropout intention among NICHS students. Academic resilience is found to mediate the relationship between family communication patterns and school dropout intention. These findings support previous research by confirming that family communication patterns influence students’ school dropout intentions. More importantly, this study extends the understanding of FCP by highlighting how conversation orientation and conformity orientations function within the Cambodian context, particularly among high school students, where cultural, familial, and educational dynamics may differ from those in previously studied settings.

This study presents a qualitative content analysis study of Al-Hadaf, a quarterly Islamic newsletter published by the Brunei Darussalam State Mufti Department. The newsletter is seen as an authored system of ordering, a noble action with a magnificent aim of converting the Muslim readers into the ideally perfect men (insan-ul-kamil) through its narratives. Theoretically, narrative is a work of social construction which represents the social reality of life-world affairs. It is certainly conditioned by social and in turn creates social influence. This study attempts to examine how Al-Hadaf provides readers with the appropriate Islamic knowledge, as espoused in the ‘aqidah, fiqh and tasawuf disciplines, on the relationship with Allah S.W.T the only one and true God, and performing good deeds and not committing evil acts and correlating dunya with akhirah. Qualitative methodology is employed as a framework of the study with the narrative theory as its underpinning theory. Analysis of data is made through the content analysis and semiotic applications, which are then categorized according to the main themes of the al-Qur’an as observed by Izutsu (2004). The main themes were God-man, good-evil and dunya-akhirah. The study found narratives in Al-Hadaf basically revolved around the concept of insan as the created and as a servant to Allah S.W.T., the Creator, whereby he/she needs to acquire the three essential religious disciplines of knowledge, namely, ‘aqidah, fiqh and tasawuf and putting them into total religious practices in order to achieve the status of a true knowledgeable Muslim in the real sense of the word.