PENGARUH ATRIBUT PELAJAR BERPENCAPAIAN AKADEMIK TINGGI (PINTAR-CERDAS AKADEMIK) DALAM HUBUNGAN KERJA DENGAN MENTOR

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2008-11
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HAJI MUSA, AHMAD JAAFAR
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The objectives of this research were to explore the influence of academic gifted students' attributes such as self' concept, locus of control, extrovert, and introvert in working alliance with their mentors. This research also aim to identify the academic gifted students' attributes profile and demographic aspects. The research employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. The research's design was ex post facto using correlational and regression methods. The research was conducted in three phases which involved 767 respondents from eight premier fully residential schools from Johor and Perak, Malaysia. This research also was based on Theory of Gifted by Piirto (1999), Theory of Personality by Rogers (1951) and Jung (1921), Theory of SOCial Learning by Rotter (1966), and the Concept of Working Alliance by Horvath and Greenberg (1989). Descriptive analysis found that the majority of the respondent are male students, stay with their parents, having more than five siblings, being the eldest, parents working with the government, parents' education up to degree level, parents' income more than RM 2,001.00, spending between one to two hours doing homework and revision, keen to study on their own, like to be an engineer, and having an interaction with mentor for one to two years. Majority of the respondent also have high academic self concept, low social self concept, internal locus of control and introverted. Finding from Pearson correlation coefficient test showed that there are significance relationships between academic self concept, social self concept, extrovert .and introvert with working alliance. A multiple regression equation revealed that there are significance influences of (i) social self concept and locus of control toward working alliance (ii) academic self concept, social self concept, extrovert and introvert toward goal (iii) academic self concept, social self concept, extrovert and introvert toward task (iv) academic self concept with bond. Paired t test found gender does not effect working alliance. Findings from one way ANOVA showed that parents' occupation, level of income, duration of doing homework, duration of doing revision and period of relationship with mentor and learning styles do influence the working alliance. Finding from qualitative research revealed factors such as hostility, fear, intolerate (not empathy), unconditional acceptance, openness, knowledgeable, skillful and experience have a strong impact on working alliance. The qualitative research also found that the majority of respondents have high cognitive ability, easily bored in school, low social skill,and introvert. The qualitative research also revealed much preferred mentors' and mentees' attributes and the problems encountered by school in implementing mentoring. Generally, the findings should be useful for Ministry of Education especially for school's mentors in implementing activities that relate to the working alliance in school.
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PELAJAR , PINTAR-CERDAS AKADEMIK
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