Sport culture can serve as a catalyst for positive youth development. However, sport should not be confined to only elite, or high performance, or professional sports. It has a broader context of sport-for-all that includes recreation, play, fitness, games, exercise and any healthy physical and mental activity that contributes to overall wellness. In order to develop positive youth development, it has to be preceded with sports that encourage learning and education before youth development can take place. This is very important for the young people as prime movers in nation building. The effort to instill sports as a culture is also not the job of only the youth participants themselves, but includes the partnership and collaboration with adults and other stakeholders. The whole spectrum of the sport industry has specific roles in developing the youth. In this dimension of sport for positive youth development, winning medals and titles are no longer the primary goals in sport participation. The primary goals are having fun, enjoyment, gaining new knowledge and acquiring skills, leading to self-fulfillment, satisfaction, and meaning in life. Sport participation is a lifelong continuous development process and contributes to personal growth and human capital development where the values of sport help to mold the character of the youth. Sport as a culture composes of value systems, beliefs, attitudes and behaviour. In addition, ports engagements are not about being passive spectators, but to actively playing, games, exercising, and indulge in the pleasures and adventure of a given sport. In this article, a new model of instilling sport culture is proposed through the “3P.E.C.K.S – Provide, Participate, Programmes; Educate; Collaborate; Knowledge; and Skills”; and where the sport engagements facilitates to P.L.A.C.E.S – Passion, Love, Adventure, Challenge and Commitment, Excitement and Excellence, and Self-actualization and Self-esteem. Sports culture begins from home, then to school, open spaces, offices, and sporting arenas. Having sporting events alone is not enough. There has to be a holistic development from various other elements that includes recreation education if sports culture is to be instilled.

Keywords: Sports Culture, Positive Youth Development, Sport-for-All, Leisure and Recreation, Sports and Recreation Education

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This study is intended to identify social responsibility of adolescents from both urban and rural areas and their unique predictors. Sample comprised of 935 daily secondary schools adolescents ages between 16 to 17 years residing in the urban and rural areas in Kedah, Kelantan, Johor, Sabah, and Selangor. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire comprising several measures: Social Self-Efficacy Scale (Muris 2001), Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (Armsden and Greenberg 1987), a modified version (Afriani and Rozumah 2011) of Social and Personal Responsibility Scale (Conrad and Hedin 1981). Findings revealed that adolescents from rural areas have higher social responsibility than those from urban areas. Sex, social self-efficacy, and mother and peer attachments were predictive of social behavior of adolescents from both urban and rural adolescents. The study concludes that personal and family factors play significant roles in shaping adolescents’ social responsibility behavior. Findings imply that any efforts in cultivating social responsibility in adolescents should consider factors within the proximal context of the adolescents.

Keywords: Social Responsibility, Adolescents, Attachment Relationships, Social Self-Efficacy, Urban, Rural

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Artikel ini membincangkan mengenai penglibatan mahasiswa Melayu di Universiti Awam sekitar Lembah Kelang dalam politik di Malaysia. Penglibatan ini memberi fokus terhadap kehadiran mahasiswa dalam aktiviti anjuran parti politik seperti ceramah, dialog, forum, kempen dan mesyuarat parti politik. Kajian ini menggunakan kaedah tinjauan menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dan pengumpulan data melalui soal selidik. Sampel kajian melibatkan seramai 441 orang responden dari empat buah universiti terpilih. Penemuan mendapati tahap penglibatan mahasiswa Melayu Universiti Awam sekitar Lembah Kelang dalam politik berada pada tahap rendah. Hal ini menunjukkan bahawa mahasiswa Melayu kurang mendapat pendedahan tentang politik walaupun larangan terhadap penglibatan dalam politik telah ditarik balik melalui pindaan Seksyen 15 AUKU tahun 2012.

Kata Kunci: Pilihan raya, Parti Politik, Penglibatan, Mahasiswa, AUKU

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Artikel ini bertujuan mengukur kesejahteraan hidup dalam kalangan belia Malaysia yang diterjemahkan melalui penghasilan Indeks Belia Malaysia 2015 (IBM’15). Sejarah pembentukan IBM di Malaysia adalah merupakan antara negara terawal yang mewujudkan indeks yang mengukur kesejahteraan hidup generasi belia mereka dalam kalangan negara-negara Komanwel. IBM mula dibangunkan di Malaysia bermula pada tahun 2006 sebagai tahun asas, dikuti dengan penghasilan IBM pada tahun 2008 dan 2011. Penghasilan IBM pada tahun 2015 telah membawa pelbagai penambahbaikan berasaskan pembentukan indeks belia Malaysia tahun-tahun terdahulu. Penambahbaikan demi penambahbaikan ini berlaku berteraskan kepada senario semasa yang turut disokong oleh kepesatan perkembangan teknologi yang bergerak maju seiring dengan pembangunan belia yang dilihat dari kaca mata positif. IBM’15 dengan pembangunan 12 Domain dan 58 Indikator dihasilkan bertujuan bagi memantau perkembangan khusus dalam mengukur kesejahteraan hidup generasi belia pada masa kini. Antara Domain yang menjadi pemacu utama dalam mengesan kesejahteraan hidup belia Malaysia adalah Pembangunan Kendiri, Potensi Diri, Kesejahteraan Ekonomi, Penggunaan Media, Hubungan Sosial, Kesihatan, Keselamatan, Waktu Senggang, Identiti, Pendidikan, Sosialisasi Politik dan Bebas Tingkah Laku Devian. Kajian ini dilaksanakan ke atas 6,098 orang responden yang berusia di antara 15-30 tahun dengan menggunakan Blok Perhitungan bagi mengenal pasti lokaliti responden yang terlibat dalam kajian ini. Hasil IBM’15 secara keseluruhannya menunjukkan bahawa kesejahteraan hidup belia Malaysia berada pada tahap Sederhana iaitu pada skor 70.22. Berdasarkan dapatan IBM’15 dilihat masih banyak ruang penambahbaikan yang perlu dilaksanakan oleh pelbagai pihak bagi memastikan generasi belia Malaysia berada dalam acuan yang menjadi penentu pengisi kemakmuran dan pembangunan Malaysia pada hari ini.

Kata Kunci: Indeks Belia Malaysia, Domain, Indikator, Pembangunan Belia Positif, Kesejahteraan Hidup Belia.

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