Abstract
Physical, emotional, and psychological problems are among the core issues experienced by adolescents transitioning into adulthood and graduate students, particularly when pursuing higher education. As such, the stressors can adversely impact the higher education students’ quality of life (QoL) and life satisfaction, especially if they lack self-leadership. Hence, the purpose of this explanatory sequential mixed-method study was to determine the effect of self-leadership on QoL and life satisfaction, moderating the impact of emotional and spiritual intelligence. The bottom-up spill over theoretical model guided this study. In the first phase, quantitative data on self-leadership, QoL, and life satisfaction were collected from 396 higher education students in Brunei. The qualitative data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26. In the second phase, qualitative data were collected from 32 students using a semi-structured interview protocol. NVivo was used to support the content analysis, helping explore the students’ perception of the influence of spiritual and emotional intelligence on life satisfaction, QoL, and self-leadership. The quantitative findings were that self-leadership significantly influences the students’ QoL and life satisfaction. Six themes, self-awareness, self-regulation, self-acceptance, help-seeking, holistic approaches, and achieving control, were retrieved in the second phase.
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Hj Zul Fakhari bin Muksin, Universiti Teknologi Brunei, Brunei
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Conference: IICE2023
Stream: Higher education
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Muksin H. (2023) Effect of Self-Leadership on Higher Education Students’ Life Satisfaction and Quality of Life: A Bruneian Mixed-Methods Case Study ISSN: 2189-1036 – The IAFOR International Conference on Education – Hawaii 2023 Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-1036.2023.28
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2189-1036.2023.28
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