Title: Malaysian Adolescents: Cognitive and Psychosocial
Editors: Lihana Borhan, Fatimah Hashim & Juliana Othman
Publisher: IIUM Press
Price: RM57.00
Pages: 129
Year: 2014
Are you interested in the findings on Malaysian adolescents, especially pertaining to contemporary challenges in current digital and global age? The findings are shocking, yet interesting and would definitely be valuable to policy makers, social counsellors, community workers, parents, teachers and the public.
Malaysian Adolescents: Cognitive and Psychosocial presents research findings of 4404 Malaysian adolescents (16 years old) nationwide.
This book contains eleven chapters with an array of interesting topics that can be grouped as adolescents’ extent of smoking, drug taking and alcohol consumption; their self-esteem and resilience; adolescents’ relationship with their families; their cognitive reasoning abilities; moral choice and moral reasoning; citizenship literacy; and their aspirations.
Being a research-based book, the results are definitely supported by primary evidences in terms of tables for clarity.
Many useful suggestions and recommendations were put forth for the relevant authorities to respond. Therefore, there’s the need to read this book that discloses our teenagers, who are future leaders of the nation.