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The Relationship Among Academic Achievement, General Life Satisfaction and General Health

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The vision of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) is to establish UiTM as a premier university of outstanding scholarship and academic excellence capable of providing leadership to Bumiputras’s dynamic involvement in all professional fields of world-class standards. In line with this, it is crucial to determine and recognise the features related to academic excellence which play a big role in determining the academic success of students. Rather than examining the well-studied features such as time management and campus facilities, this research aims to study something that is seldom discussed: general life satisfaction and general health. Questionnaires were used to solicit data from the respondents which consist of semester three and four students, from various programmes, of UiTM Negeri Sembilan. A total observation of 406 was recorded. The collected data was analysed through Path Diagram Analysis using SPSS and AMOS software. The data in this study meet the required assumption for statistical analysis and do not depart from normality as well as it provides a reliable measure of internal consistency. This study also suggests that there is a significant hypothesised path in the model. Thus, general life satisfaction and general health have a significant relationship with academic achievement (CGPA).

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We would like to thank part four and part five students of Universiti Teknologi MARA for filling in the questionnaires and the lecturers who were involved in the data collection process.

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  1. Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

    Siti Sara Ibrahim, Nur Fadhlina Zainal Abedin & Sharfizie Mohd Sharip

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  1. Head-Research Impact, Research Management Institute,Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia

    Rugayah Hashim

  2. Assistance Vice Chancellor, Research Management Institute, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia

    Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed

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Ibrahim, S., Abedin, N., Sharip, S. (2015). The Relationship Among Academic Achievement, General Life Satisfaction and General Health. In: Hashim, R., Abdul Majeed, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Colloquium on Administrative Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-45-3_17

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