Abstract—This study compares the Muslim flood victims’
wellbeing and their practices of Muslim religious personality as
coping strategies in dealing with disaster stress in four different
districts in Malaysia. The studies involved a survey conducted
in two separate studies involving four different districts in
Peninsular Malaysia. The districts chosen were Kuala
Terengganu and Dengkil for study one; while the other two
districts were Besut in Terengganu and Salak Tinggi, in Sepang
Selangor for the second study. A total of 200 flood victims had
participated in this study with majority were from Malay origin
and Muslim in faith. Both studies have gathered 100 sample for
each studies. The participants were randomly selected in the
flood relief center to answer the questionnaires given. The
result was analyzed and compared descriptively. Lower
education level has serious influence towards sample
understanding of the item used. It also influenced the
respondent job and income which have shaped the
non-significant result of all the inventories used in these two
studies.
Index Terms—Demographic characteristic, education level,
Islamic teaching knowledge, young adult respondents, flood
disaster coping mechanism.
The authors are with the Faculty of Leadership and Management,
Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) (e-mail: husni@uniten.edu.my,
sapora@usim.edu.my, khatijah@usim.edu.my, nadian_nisa13@yahoo.com,
drzulkip@usim.edu.my).
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Cite: Husni Mohd Radzi, Sapora Sipon, Khatijah Othman, Nik Nadian Nisa Nik Nazli, and Zulkifli Abd
Ghani, " Demographic Influence on Muslim Flood Victim Wellbeing in Flood Prone Districts in Malaysia," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 561-565, 2015.