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The Relationship between Student’s Self-Esteem and Absenteeism
Noor Adilatul Husna binti Arfiee
Supervisor: Dr.Aris Safree bin Md Yasin
Bachelor of Counseling
School of Social and Economic Development
The aim of the study is to identify the relationship between student’s self-esteem and
the absenteeism. The objective of this study is to identify self-esteem level of each
students, the different of self-esteem based on gender, to identify relationship
between students self-esteem and the absenteeism, factors that leads to absenteeism
among students, the different level of absenteeism based on gender and the different
level of absenteeism based on social economic status. The instrument used is
Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale were adapted from the Rosenberg. M (1965). Alpha
Cronbach of this questionnaire estimated 0.80. Purposive sampling technique was
utilized to identify 100 secondary students from 3 different School as respondents for
the study. The data collected were analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social
Sciences 23.0(SPSS). The implication of this research poses that school and parents
should take an initiative on how to guide students from doing the wrong things. A few
suggestioned were given for research continuation and to the school in addressing the
problem of absenteeism.
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