THE SUPPORT OF PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND FRIENDS IN INFLUENCING STUDENTS’ MORAL PRACTICE

Abstract

The demise of morals among students nowadays has become more rampant, and positive actions are needed to address it. This issue requires the utmost attention by related parties to ensure students possess good morals and noble values to be applied in real-life situations within the society. Nowadays, cases involving moral failures especially among the youths have been frequently brought up. The problems happened due to moral demise and no practice of good values and morals among the society. The best education begins with the role and support from parents, teachers and friends by showing the correct moral practice according to Islam religion. Thus, the objective of this paper was to identify the factor of parents, teachers and friends in influencing students’ moral practice. The survey data were collected from special primary school students in the district of Johor Bahru using stratified random sampling and analysed using partial least-squares structural equations modeling (PLS-SEM) technique. The key findings show that parents, teachers and friends have influence towards students’ moral practice.