Academic achievement and sports involvement of Malaysian university athletes

This research studied the factors that influence the academic achievement of Malaysian university athletes. The respondents consisted of 156 field hockey players. The Team Socialization Scale (Allen, 1997) was used to measure the relationships between team subculture, parental influence, the learnin...

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Main Authors: Yusof, Aminuddin, Chun, Cheng Chuan, Mohd Shah, Parilah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/67044/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/67044/1/inte2013-1-1.pdf
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author Yusof, Aminuddin
Chun, Cheng Chuan
Mohd Shah, Parilah
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description This research studied the factors that influence the academic achievement of Malaysian university athletes. The respondents consisted of 156 field hockey players. The Team Socialization Scale (Allen, 1997) was used to measure the relationships between team subculture, parental influence, the learning environment, support systems, financial aid, training factors, academic assistance, socialization, and stress level and academic achievements of student athletes. The findings showed that there is a significant positive relationship between the learning environmental and academic achievements of university athletes. However there is a negative relationship between the support system and academic achievements of university athletes. The study provides suggestions on how to improve the academic achievement of athletes in Malaysian universities.
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spelling upm-670442019-03-06T05:40:25Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/67044/ Academic achievement and sports involvement of Malaysian university athletes Yusof, Aminuddin Chun, Cheng Chuan Mohd Shah, Parilah This research studied the factors that influence the academic achievement of Malaysian university athletes. The respondents consisted of 156 field hockey players. The Team Socialization Scale (Allen, 1997) was used to measure the relationships between team subculture, parental influence, the learning environment, support systems, financial aid, training factors, academic assistance, socialization, and stress level and academic achievements of student athletes. The findings showed that there is a significant positive relationship between the learning environmental and academic achievements of university athletes. However there is a negative relationship between the support system and academic achievements of university athletes. The study provides suggestions on how to improve the academic achievement of athletes in Malaysian universities. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/67044/1/inte2013-1-1.pdf Yusof, Aminuddin and Chun, Cheng Chuan and Mohd Shah, Parilah (2013) Academic achievement and sports involvement of Malaysian university athletes. In: 4th International Conference on New Horizons in Education (INTE 2013), 25-27 June 2013, Rome, Italy. (pp. 17-26).
spellingShingle Yusof, Aminuddin
Chun, Cheng Chuan
Mohd Shah, Parilah
Academic achievement and sports involvement of Malaysian university athletes
title Academic achievement and sports involvement of Malaysian university athletes
title_full Academic achievement and sports involvement of Malaysian university athletes
title_fullStr Academic achievement and sports involvement of Malaysian university athletes
title_full_unstemmed Academic achievement and sports involvement of Malaysian university athletes
title_short Academic achievement and sports involvement of Malaysian university athletes
title_sort academic achievement and sports involvement of malaysian university athletes
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/67044/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/67044/1/inte2013-1-1.pdf