Mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms on associations between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households

Coping process involves contingency actions of individual to alter their cognitive and behaviour to cope with stress encountering events in life. Self-coping mechanisms were examined further as mediating effect between financial practices and financial security among female-headed households in Mala...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Siti Yuliandi, Sabri, Mohamad Fazli, Abdul Rahim @ Abdul Wahab, Husniyah, Osman, Syuhaily
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Language:English
Published: Malaysian Consumer and Family Economics Association 2016
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54775/
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author Ahmad, Siti Yuliandi
Sabri, Mohamad Fazli
Abdul Rahim @ Abdul Wahab, Husniyah
Osman, Syuhaily
author_facet Ahmad, Siti Yuliandi
Sabri, Mohamad Fazli
Abdul Rahim @ Abdul Wahab, Husniyah
Osman, Syuhaily
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description Coping process involves contingency actions of individual to alter their cognitive and behaviour to cope with stress encountering events in life. Self-coping mechanisms were examined further as mediating effect between financial practices and financial security among female-headed households in Malaysia. A model was then constructed based on Characteristics Theory, Cognitive of Stress and Coping Theory. A multi-stage random sampling was executed and a self-administered survey was executed to collect data from 600 respondents from six single mother associations at every zone in Malaysia. A structural equation modelling using AMOS software was used to examine mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms in a relationship between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households in Malaysia. The findings support that a significant relationship exists between indirect and mediating models. The study revealed that there is a partial mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms between financial practices and financial security. The role of self-coping mechanisms is crucial to grasp a better understanding of how financial practices and financial security are related to improving the living standards of female-headed households. Implications and limitations of the study are dissussed further.
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spelling upm-547752018-08-29T01:18:36Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54775/ Mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms on associations between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households Ahmad, Siti Yuliandi Sabri, Mohamad Fazli Abdul Rahim @ Abdul Wahab, Husniyah Osman, Syuhaily Coping process involves contingency actions of individual to alter their cognitive and behaviour to cope with stress encountering events in life. Self-coping mechanisms were examined further as mediating effect between financial practices and financial security among female-headed households in Malaysia. A model was then constructed based on Characteristics Theory, Cognitive of Stress and Coping Theory. A multi-stage random sampling was executed and a self-administered survey was executed to collect data from 600 respondents from six single mother associations at every zone in Malaysia. A structural equation modelling using AMOS software was used to examine mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms in a relationship between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households in Malaysia. The findings support that a significant relationship exists between indirect and mediating models. The study revealed that there is a partial mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms between financial practices and financial security. The role of self-coping mechanisms is crucial to grasp a better understanding of how financial practices and financial security are related to improving the living standards of female-headed households. Implications and limitations of the study are dissussed further. Malaysian Consumer and Family Economics Association 2016 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54775/1/Mediating%20effect%20of%20self-coping%20mechanisms%20on%20associations%20between%20financial%20practices%20and%20financial%20security%20of%20female-headed%20households.pdf Ahmad, Siti Yuliandi and Sabri, Mohamad Fazli and Abdul Rahim @ Abdul Wahab, Husniyah and Osman, Syuhaily (2016) Mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms on associations between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households. Malaysian Journal of Consumer and Family Economics, 19. pp. 143-159. ISSN 1511-2802 http://www.majcafe.com/2017/04/09/vol-19-2016/
spellingShingle Ahmad, Siti Yuliandi
Sabri, Mohamad Fazli
Abdul Rahim @ Abdul Wahab, Husniyah
Osman, Syuhaily
Mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms on associations between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households
title Mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms on associations between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households
title_full Mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms on associations between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households
title_fullStr Mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms on associations between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households
title_full_unstemmed Mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms on associations between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households
title_short Mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms on associations between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households
title_sort mediating effect of self-coping mechanisms on associations between financial practices and financial security of female-headed households
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