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    Anxiety in using learning aid software in learning English language among primary school children during the pandemic Covid 19: A case study in rural primary schools
    The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships in using the learning aid software in learning English language among rural primary school children during the Pandemic Covid 19. This study has shown that the most contribution socio demographic factors in influencing the occurrence of anxiety among the rural primary school children in using the learning aid software in learning English language were the parents' or guardians' education and income followed by internet accessibility, number of siblings, place in siblings and gender. The basic computer skills that the rural primary school children had significant contribution in anxiety namely somatic, cognitive and avoidance behaviour. Assessing the ability of mastering the ICT basic skills contributed to anxiety whereby cognitive scores the highest followed by somatic and avoidance behaviour.
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    The impact of the big five personality traits on work engagement among Malaysian public universities academics
    This study focuses on the public universities’ academics work engagement levels based on the individual personality traits that influences them. It is believed that individual personality has a credentials to a person’s attitude or features, which most of the time, being influenced by internal and external factors. Thus, in this study context, researchers’ intented to test academics’ personality while their engaging with their tasks. This study executed in Malaysia context, survey tested on 147 participants or said 147 academics. The participation indicates 64% of responses. Later, the responses of questionnaires were coded thru SPSS version 26. There are six analyses were executed in this study, namely descriptive analysis, normality analysis, reliability tests, Pearson correlation analysis, simple regression analysis and also multiple regression analysis. Results shows that Big Five personality model are interrelated and correlated with work engagement which aligned with previous studies, except for agreeableness personality that been contradicted with past research in this study context. There is high possibility due to various situational issues, such as in aspect of sampling method or misinterpretation by respondents. Moreover, this study tends to be a contribution to literature and stepping stone for more outcomes. Future studies were proposed.