Attitude and Knowledge towards Savings, Spending, Investment and Insurance among Students

The study investigates the relationship between savings attitude with spending attitude among students at tertiary level. Besides that, it attempts to find answer pertaining to students’ attitude in savings with their knowledge of investments as well as insurance. A survey research is employed as th...

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Main Author: Zuraina, Ali
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: Readers Insight Publisher 2018
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Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/24028/1/Attitude%20and%20Knowledge%20towards%20Savings.pdf
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description The study investigates the relationship between savings attitude with spending attitude among students at tertiary level. Besides that, it attempts to find answer pertaining to students’ attitude in savings with their knowledge of investments as well as insurance. A survey research is employed as the methodology to collect the data for the current study that involves 229 undergraduate and postgraduate students in local and private universities in Malaysia. Results showed that students have a medium positive correlations between savings and speding. Likewise, they showed a medium positive correlations between savings and knowledge of investment. Nevertheless, there is a small positive correlation between savings and knowledge of insurance. The results of the study implies that there is a need to impart knowledge of insurance among the participants as the knowledge enables them to plan for their financial security and protect their lives in the future.
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spelling UMPir240282019-01-29T02:33:15Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/24028/ Attitude and Knowledge towards Savings, Spending, Investment and Insurance among Students Zuraina, Ali HD Industries. Land use. Labor The study investigates the relationship between savings attitude with spending attitude among students at tertiary level. Besides that, it attempts to find answer pertaining to students’ attitude in savings with their knowledge of investments as well as insurance. A survey research is employed as the methodology to collect the data for the current study that involves 229 undergraduate and postgraduate students in local and private universities in Malaysia. Results showed that students have a medium positive correlations between savings and speding. Likewise, they showed a medium positive correlations between savings and knowledge of investment. Nevertheless, there is a small positive correlation between savings and knowledge of insurance. The results of the study implies that there is a need to impart knowledge of insurance among the participants as the knowledge enables them to plan for their financial security and protect their lives in the future. Readers Insight Publisher 2018 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_nc_nd_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/24028/1/Attitude%20and%20Knowledge%20towards%20Savings.pdf Zuraina, Ali (2018) Attitude and Knowledge towards Savings, Spending, Investment and Insurance among Students. In: Asia Proceedings of Social Sciences: AIC 2018, Emerging Issues in Economics and Finance (EIEF 2018) , 8-9 December 2018 , Langkawi International Convention Center (LICC). pp. 74-78.. http://readersinsight.net/APSS/article/view/340/339
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title_full Attitude and Knowledge towards Savings, Spending, Investment and Insurance among Students
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title_full_unstemmed Attitude and Knowledge towards Savings, Spending, Investment and Insurance among Students
title_short Attitude and Knowledge towards Savings, Spending, Investment and Insurance among Students
title_sort attitude and knowledge towards savings spending investment and insurance among students
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