Psychological well-being and prosocial behaviour among postgraduate students in IIUM

Abstract

Psychological well-being is important for students because it has six elements, namely autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relations with others, purpose in life, and self-acceptance that can affect prosocial behaviour among students. Psychological well-being can give benefits to the students whether good or bad depending on individuals. Specifically, the researcher used gender, psychological well-being, and prosocial behaviour as the variables of the study. Hence, the aim of this study is to identify psychological well-being and prosocial behaviour among postgraduate students at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Gombak. In doing so, this study compared two Kulliyyahs, i.e. Kulliyyah of Education and Kulliyyah of Engineering. A total number of 1241 IIUM postgraduate students were selected as respondents for this study. The researcher randomly selected 294 respondents by using Raoft Calculator. In this study, the data is valid and reliable to address the research questions. The analysis of the means, standard deviation, standard of error of means, kurtosis and skewness have also been presented in this study. Having large samples helped the study to avoid and minimize certain violations of assumptions including normal distribution. Thus, having met the assumption of the normal distribution helped the researcher to address research questions in this study. On top of that, the descriptive analyses as well as inferential analysis, such as independent t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and bivariate Pearson were used in this study to answer to all of research questions. The result of this study is postgraduate students are well in terms of psychological well-being and prosocial behaviour. The students are able to manage their well-being, personal matter, stress, time management, acceptance of emotions and thoughts.