The study is conducted to identify the adaptive behaviours towards working environment among internship students in UiTM Malacca City Campus and the relationship between perceived severity, perceived vulnerability, perceived response efficacy and perceived self-efficacy with adaptive behaviours in a working environment. This study involved 55 internship students in UiTM Malacca City Campus who answered the questionnaires that had been distributed. This study adopted Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) as main underlying framework to further explained the variables involved.
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In-Text Citation: (Razak, Marmaya, Karim, Wee, & Ridzuan, 2018)
To Cite this Article: Razak, N. A., Marmaya, N. H., Karim, R. A., Wee, N. M. B. M. F., & Ridzuan, A. R. Bin. (2018). Adaptive Behavior towards Work Environment among Internship Students. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 8(11), 130–137.
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