A study on the association of pharmacy student involvement in student society and their academic performance in UiTM Puncak Alam

The involvement of students in the student society is beneficial for students to gain vanous skills. But some research shows that student involvement in the student society can affect their academic performance. It is important to identify the relationship between student involvement and their academic performance to encourage student to participate and balancing between academic and non-academic activities. The questionnaires were adapted from Authors Jennifer Logan, Traci Hughes and Brian Logan, authors R. A. Bakoban and S. A. Aljarallah and a research article on student involvement and belonging from Ohio State University. It had been distributed to the third-year students (n=123) of Faculty of Pharmacy UiTM Puncak Alam. The questionnaires consist of student involvement in the student society, their academic performances, their study time and reasons of participation. There is no significant different (p-value = 0.925) between student who participated and did not participate in the student society and (p-value = 0.711) no significant difference between their study time. The data indicated that the involvement of student in the student society will not affect their study time, thus not affecting their academic performances. This can encourage student participating in the various organization. Besides, most of the students agreed that they participated in the student society to acquire various skills, improve confident level and build wider networking.