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Hew, Khe Foon; Cheung, Wing Sum – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine students' affective commitment toward Singapore. Affective commitment refers to the sense of attachment to the nation state. The sample was taken from 286 students in a primary school. In the first section of the paper, we described the design of a Likert-type Affective Commitment to Country questionnaire.…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Validity, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis
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Sim, Tick Ngee; Ng, Ee Lynn – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2007
The current study examined the mediating role of stress in the linkages between attachment to parents and adjustment to attending higher learning institutions in another country. Self-reports from 114 Malaysian late adolescents studying in Singapore supported the primacy of stress for adjustment; more pertinent, stress mediated all the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Stress Variables, Attachment Behavior