A study on the awareness of violence against women among citizens in Kota Bharu / Nur Raudah Ruzelan , Nurul Shahira Samsudin and Nur Aliya Mohamad Azemi

Violence against women (VAW) is a serious human rights violation. Its impact ranges from immediate to long-term multiple physical consequences, sexual and mental, including death. This paper presents the awareness among citizens towards VAW for their concern about violence, perception, and knowledge...

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Main Authors: Ruzelan, Nur Raudah, Samsudin, Nurul Shahira, Mohamad Azemi, Nur Aliya
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Published: 2019
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spelling my-uitm-ir.325332020-07-20T03:23:24Z A study on the awareness of violence against women among citizens in Kota Bharu / Nur Raudah Ruzelan , Nurul Shahira Samsudin and Nur Aliya Mohamad Azemi 2019-07 Ruzelan, Nur Raudah Samsudin, Nurul Shahira Mohamad Azemi, Nur Aliya Interpersonal relations. Social behavior Violence against women (VAW) is a serious human rights violation. Its impact ranges from immediate to long-term multiple physical consequences, sexual and mental, including death. This paper presents the awareness among citizens towards VAW for their concern about violence, perception, and knowledge about violence. The research was carried out using a sample questionnaire consisting of 384 Kota Bharu citizens. The samples were selected using a multi-stages clustering sampling method. Independent t-test used to determine the difference mean in awareness between gender and it is found that there is no difference mean in awareness of VAW between male and female. One-way ANOVA used to see if there is any significant difference mean in their awareness of VAW between demographic factors included education levels and sub-districts. The research found that there is no difference mean between demographic factors in the awareness of VAW. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) used to analyse the effects of citizens' concerns, knowledge, and public‟s perception towards awareness of VAW. The finding indicates that concern, knowledge, and perception have a significant impact on the awareness of VAW. The institute can provide citizens with more information to give them better concern, knowledge and public‟s perception. With appropriate education, it is important to increase awareness and knowledge of this abuse 2019-07 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32533/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32533/1/32533.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kelantan Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences Ibrahim, Nurul Bariyah
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
collection UiTM Institutional Repository
language English
advisor Ibrahim, Nurul Bariyah
topic Interpersonal relations
Social behavior
spellingShingle Interpersonal relations
Social behavior
Ruzelan, Nur Raudah
Samsudin, Nurul Shahira
Mohamad Azemi, Nur Aliya
A study on the awareness of violence against women among citizens in Kota Bharu / Nur Raudah Ruzelan , Nurul Shahira Samsudin and Nur Aliya Mohamad Azemi
description Violence against women (VAW) is a serious human rights violation. Its impact ranges from immediate to long-term multiple physical consequences, sexual and mental, including death. This paper presents the awareness among citizens towards VAW for their concern about violence, perception, and knowledge about violence. The research was carried out using a sample questionnaire consisting of 384 Kota Bharu citizens. The samples were selected using a multi-stages clustering sampling method. Independent t-test used to determine the difference mean in awareness between gender and it is found that there is no difference mean in awareness of VAW between male and female. One-way ANOVA used to see if there is any significant difference mean in their awareness of VAW between demographic factors included education levels and sub-districts. The research found that there is no difference mean between demographic factors in the awareness of VAW. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) used to analyse the effects of citizens' concerns, knowledge, and public‟s perception towards awareness of VAW. The finding indicates that concern, knowledge, and perception have a significant impact on the awareness of VAW. The institute can provide citizens with more information to give them better concern, knowledge and public‟s perception. With appropriate education, it is important to increase awareness and knowledge of this abuse
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author Ruzelan, Nur Raudah
Samsudin, Nurul Shahira
Mohamad Azemi, Nur Aliya
author_facet Ruzelan, Nur Raudah
Samsudin, Nurul Shahira
Mohamad Azemi, Nur Aliya
author_sort Ruzelan, Nur Raudah
title A study on the awareness of violence against women among citizens in Kota Bharu / Nur Raudah Ruzelan , Nurul Shahira Samsudin and Nur Aliya Mohamad Azemi
title_short A study on the awareness of violence against women among citizens in Kota Bharu / Nur Raudah Ruzelan , Nurul Shahira Samsudin and Nur Aliya Mohamad Azemi
title_full A study on the awareness of violence against women among citizens in Kota Bharu / Nur Raudah Ruzelan , Nurul Shahira Samsudin and Nur Aliya Mohamad Azemi
title_fullStr A study on the awareness of violence against women among citizens in Kota Bharu / Nur Raudah Ruzelan , Nurul Shahira Samsudin and Nur Aliya Mohamad Azemi
title_full_unstemmed A study on the awareness of violence against women among citizens in Kota Bharu / Nur Raudah Ruzelan , Nurul Shahira Samsudin and Nur Aliya Mohamad Azemi
title_sort study on the awareness of violence against women among citizens in kota bharu / nur raudah ruzelan , nurul shahira samsudin and nur aliya mohamad azemi
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kelantan
granting_department Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
publishDate 2019
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/32533/1/32533.pdf
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