Exploring the state of economic well-being among urban Malay civil servants: a qualitative study

This research aims to explore how the economic well-being affects the subjective well-being (SWB) among the selected respondents who live in the major cities in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. Adopting the Allard's dimensions of welfare, this study explores the subjective meaning of life satisfacti...

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Main Authors: Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah, Md. Noon, Hazizan
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2015
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spelling iium-495102019-09-13T07:07:44Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/49510/ Exploring the state of economic well-being among urban Malay civil servants: a qualitative study Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah Md. Noon, Hazizan H Social Sciences (General) HM Sociology HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology This research aims to explore how the economic well-being affects the subjective well-being (SWB) among the selected respondents who live in the major cities in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. Adopting the Allard's dimensions of welfare, this study explores the subjective meaning of life satisfaction among the administrative personnel of a Malaysian university, namely Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). Sixteen key informants from four different categories of administrative staff of the University’s main campus in Shah Alam, Selangor were engaged in the researchers’ in-depth interviews. The main findings of this research have shown that the responses centred around the different coping abilities adopted by the urban Malay civil servants to survive life in the urban areas. Elsevier Ltd 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49510/4/49510_Exploring%20the%20State%20of%20Economic%20Well-Being_complete.pdf Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah and Md. Noon, Hazizan (2015) Exploring the state of economic well-being among urban Malay civil servants: a qualitative study. In: Asia Pacific International Conference on Environment-Behaviour Studies, AicE-Bs2015, 30 August- 04 September 2015, Barcelona, Spain.
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HM Sociology
HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
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HM Sociology
HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah
Md. Noon, Hazizan
Exploring the state of economic well-being among urban Malay civil servants: a qualitative study
description This research aims to explore how the economic well-being affects the subjective well-being (SWB) among the selected respondents who live in the major cities in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. Adopting the Allard's dimensions of welfare, this study explores the subjective meaning of life satisfaction among the administrative personnel of a Malaysian university, namely Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). Sixteen key informants from four different categories of administrative staff of the University’s main campus in Shah Alam, Selangor were engaged in the researchers’ in-depth interviews. The main findings of this research have shown that the responses centred around the different coping abilities adopted by the urban Malay civil servants to survive life in the urban areas.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah
Md. Noon, Hazizan
author_facet Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah
Md. Noon, Hazizan
author_sort Mohamed Harith, Nor Hafizah
title Exploring the state of economic well-being among urban Malay civil servants: a qualitative study
title_short Exploring the state of economic well-being among urban Malay civil servants: a qualitative study
title_full Exploring the state of economic well-being among urban Malay civil servants: a qualitative study
title_fullStr Exploring the state of economic well-being among urban Malay civil servants: a qualitative study
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the state of economic well-being among urban Malay civil servants: a qualitative study
title_sort exploring the state of economic well-being among urban malay civil servants: a qualitative study
publisher Elsevier Ltd
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/49510/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/49510/4/49510_Exploring%20the%20State%20of%20Economic%20Well-Being_complete.pdf
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