Abstract
The paper examines the personal characteristics on unit trust investment among working adults in Malaysia. Specifically the objective of the study to investigate empirically the extent to which the personal traits contribute to the intention to invest in unit trust. Structured questionnaires were deployed to various strategic locations in Malaysia randomly and conveniently selected. The personal characteristics were classified into work ethic, pursuit of excellence, mastery, dominance, internal attributing factor, chance attributing factor and powerful others. The coefficient of determination R2 shows that 13.8% of the variance of intention to invest is explained by the variance of work ethics, excellence, mastery, dominance, chance attributing, internal attributing and powerful others.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Creators: | Creators Email / ID Num. Lu, Tan Kwe tan@uniten.edu.my Abdullah, Azlina UNSPECIFIED Abdul Latif, Nurul Wahilah UNSPECIFIED Wei Kiong, Irene Ting UNSPECIFIED |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > Marketing H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > Personnel management. Employment management H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > Personnel management. Employment management > Communication H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > Personnel management. Employment management > Performance standards > Malaysia |
| Divisions: | Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu > Dungun Campus > Faculty of Business and Management |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Terengganu International Finance and Economics Journal (TIFEJ) |
| UiTM Journal Collections: | Others > Terengganu International Finance and Economics Journal (TIFEJ) |
| ISSN: | 2232-0539 |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Page Range: | pp. 75-82 |
| Keywords: | Personal Characteristics, Investment Intention, Working Adults, Unit Trust |
| Date: | 2012 |
| URI: | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/59633 |
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