Tinjauan terhadap Motivasi dan Transformasi Budaya Kehidupan dalam kalangan Pelajar Baharu di Fakulti Pendidikan Teknikal dan Vokasional, UTHM: A Review of the relationship between motivation and cultural transformation of Faculty of Technical and Vocational First Year Students (UTHM)

Khairul Anuar  Abdul Rahman; Muhammad Syarif  Arshad; Mohd Bekri  Rahim; Faizal Amin Nur Yunus; Suhaizal Hashim; Nizamuddin Razali

doi:10.33102/sainsinsani.vol6no1.261

Authors

Khairul Anuar Abdul Rahman
Muhammad Syarif Arshad
Mohd Bekri Rahim
Faizal Amin Nur Yunus
Suhaizal Hashim
Nizamuddin Razali

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33102/sainsinsani.vol6no1.261

Keywords:

Motivasi, Transformasi Budaya Kehidupan, Korelasi

Abstract

Pelajar peringkat universiti khususnya pelajar tahun pertama yang menyambung pengajian di universiti cenderung untuk mengalami masalah dalam menjalani kehidupan baharu mereka. Hal ini berkait dengan tahap motivasi pelajar terhadap perubahan gaya kehidupan seharian mereka. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti hubungan antara motivasi dengan transformasi budaya kehidupan pelajar di peringkat universiti. Seramai 194 orang pelajar tahun pertama yang mengikuti Program Ijazah Sarjana Muda Pendidikan Vokasional, FPTV, UTHM dipilih sebagai responden dalam kajian ini. Reka bentuk kajian yang digunakan adalah berbentuk tinjauan yang melibatkan analisis statistik deskriptif dan statistik inferensi. Satu set soal selidik telah diedar bagi mendapatkan data dalam kajian yang dijalankan ini. Data yang dikumpul daripada soal selidik telah dianalisis menggunakan perisian Statistical Package for Science School (SPSS) versi 24 secara deskriptif yang melibatkan pengiraan kekerapan, peratusan, dan min bagi mengenal pasti tahap faktor diri, ibu bapa dan masyarakat yang mendorong motivasi serta faktor sosial dan masyarakat yang mendorong transformasi budaya kehidupan pelajar. Data deskriptif yang diperoleh menunjukkan nilai min bagi pembolehubah motivasi berada pada tahap tinggi dan pembolehubah transformasi budaya kehidupan juga pada tahap tinggi. Seterusnya, analisis statistik inferensi telah dijalankan bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti hubungan di antara motivasi dengan transformasi budaya kehidupan pelajar dengan merujuk kepada ujian Spearman’s Rank Correlation. Hasil dapatan menunjukkan nilai korelasi berada pada nilai positif yang kuat. Kesimpulannya, kajian ini menunjukkan tahap motivasi pelajar tahun pertama di Fakulti Pendidikan Teknikal dan Vokasional, UTHM mempunyai hubungan yang kuat dengan transformasi budaya kehidupan mereka.

University-level students especially first-year students who are just pursuing their studies at the university tend to have problems in living their new lives. This depends on the level of student motivation associated with changes in their daily lifestyle. This study aims to identify the relationship between motivation and cultural transformation of student life at the university level. A total of 194 first-year students who participated in the Bachelor of Vocational Education, FPTV, UTHM Program were selected as respondents in this study. The research design used is in the form of a survey involving descriptive statistical and inferential statistical analysis. A set of questionnaires was distributed to obtain data in this study. Data collected from the questionnaire were analyzed using Statistical Package for Science School (SPSS) version 24 software descriptively involving the calculation of frequency, percentage, and mean to identify the level of self and parent and community factors that influence student’s motivation as well as social and community factors which drives the cultural transformation of student life. The descriptive data obtained shows the mean value of the motivational variable is at a high level and the cultural transformation variable is also at a high level. Next, inferential statistical analysis was conducted for the purpose of identifying the relationship between motivation and cultural transformation of student life by referring to the Spearman’s Rank Correlation test. Based on the result, the correlation value is positive and strong value. In conclusion, this research indicates that the level of motivation of first-year students in the Faculty of Technical and Vocational, UTHM has a strong relationship with the cultural transformation of their lives.

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