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Cross-cultural adaptation is a challenging process while sojourning abroad. The inability to understand cultural variation triggers psychological, physical or behavioral difficulties and maladjustment or misunderstanding. Socio-ecocultural underestimation is the root of intercultural resistance, stereotyping, ethnocentrism and racist sentiments among sojourners. Most of the cross-cultural adjustment studies have quantitatively demonstrated factors and predictors of adaptation success. However, the specific forms of cultural variation that impacted sojourning adaptability is blindly explained. Hence, this phenomenological paper autoethnographically observed the socio-ecocultural environment while sojourning in New Zealand. The findings highlighted that cultural awareness and sensitivity assist sojourner's cross-cultural adaptability due to the socio-ecocultural variation.

Cultural misunderstanding, conflict, difficulties, anxiety or uncertainty is stipulated due to contrast expectation, unwillingness to compromise or the different ways of life orientation. Present study aims to validate a scale to determine the extent multicultural awareness among multiethnic society of Malaysia. A key finding indicated that, the instruments are valid and reliable in assessing level of cultural awareness among multicultural society of Malaysia using part-time post-graduate students' samples from a public higher education institution. Multicultural awareness is vital to lessen ethnocentrism, racism and stereotyping in building a harmonious interracial interactions and integration.

The aim of the present study is to examine the impact of personal characteristics namely: physical activity, smoking, drinking, and duration of computer use before taking breaks on performance at work of the 'Generation Y' who employed in the Malaysian SMEs. The correlation analyses performed in order to gauge the relationship between individual characteristics and the performance of the 67 respondents who were working at the various SMEs. The key finding indicates that smoking found to have the highest effect. Therefore, this study filled the research gap pertaining to the effective management of manpower in the Malaysian SMEs.

Long-life education has become a phenomenon in world of education, and many adults pursue their study while working in order to compete with the demands of today's life in upgrading their education levels. In adopting a new lifestyle by becoming students, these students also need to face new stress in their lives. The study is to find out the environmental stress factors among part-time students. Five dependant variables are used for each of the factors and the respondents responded by ranking the variables. Questionnaire is used and distributed to the respondents which are 80 part time students from 5 universities, UNIMAS, UiTM, OUM, UPM and USM. This paper will also discuss how environment affects stress among part-time students in Sarawak. The environment factors which are discussed are the size, the conditions in term of noise and safety, pollutions, the quality of air and the potential of natural disasters in the house they are living and the surroundings. The significance of the study is to illustrate the highest stressors in part time adult students.

The ancient practice of "jadi mali" among the indigenous Iban tribe in Sarawak is a custom and tradition birthed with the aim of attaining a marriage free from any unwanted catastrophe due to violating a taboo. This article suggests the protocols of "jadi mali" ritual as a vital intangible culture passed down from our ancestors' knowledge to be preserved for future references. It adopts a philosophical approach of Husserlism of Transcendental Phenomenology (TPh) to qualitatively examine the issue of "jadi mali." The affirmative lessons obtained from this ancient ritual may act as a rule for the younger Iban generation to be mindful of their courtship and to choose the right life partner in the future. The ancient ritual of "jadi mali" indicates a need for mutual respect and teaches intensive empathy about life's details for genetic sustainability. This article contributes by providing a record for future reference on the ancient ritual of "jadi mali" among the Iban indigenous community in Sarawak. Foremost, this article is important for conserving ancestral knowledge.