Kegembiraan lestari dalam kalangan pensyarah di Universiti Penyelidikan Malaysia

Abstract

This research was carried out to investigate the factors that contribute to sustainable happiness among lecturers serving in public universities which categorised as Research Universities. This research included the study of happiness and the relationship between demographic, personality and intentional activities as the independent variables, while the dependent variables cover the aspects of overall happiness, affective and cognitive. The research was conducted in two phases; the first phase was the formation of research instruments. Thus, validity and reliability test were made to validate measurement tools for data collection. The second phase was the survey study conducted among lecturers in Research Universities to obtain data regarding the lecturer‟s happiness. Samples were selected through stratified random sampling method known as proportional stratified sampling. The study involved 645 samples of academic staffs including lecturers, senior lecturers, associate professors and professors. The male respondents involved were 322 (49.9 percent) and female were 323 (50.1 percent). This was a quantitative study which employed descriptive statistics and inferential analyses. The inferential statistics used in this study are Independent Samples t-test, One-way ANOVA, Multiple Regression and Structural Equation Model (SEM) using Partial Least Square analysis through software SmartPLS 2.0 M3. The results showed that 95.5 percent of the lecturers scored high level of happiness, while 4.2 percent of the lecturers scored lower level of happiness. Besides, the findings showed that respondents aged below 30 years, holding lecturer position, single and widows as well as income from RM 3001 to RM 5000 were more prone to experience lower level of happiness. In addition, the results found that Personality traits such as Extraversion, Neuroticism, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness influenced the level of happiness, whereas Intentional Activity throughout the components of cognitive, motivational and religion were significantly influenced sustainable happiness among lecturers. Therefore, the results could be used as a guideline to improve and sustain the level of happiness among academicians in Research University.