About the Authors

Khairuddin Idris

Contributed equally to this work with: Khairuddin Idris, Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril, Sulaiman Md. Yassin

majudesa.desa1@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor Malaysia, Department of Professional Development and Continuing Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril

Contributed equally to this work with: Khairuddin Idris, Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril, Sulaiman Md. Yassin

Affiliation Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor Malaysia

Sulaiman Md. Yassin

Contributed equally to this work with: Khairuddin Idris, Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril, Sulaiman Md. Yassin

Affiliation Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor Malaysia

Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor Malaysia, Department of Social and Development Science, Faculty of Human Ecology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Azimi Hamzah

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor Malaysia, Department of Professional Development and Continuing Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Bahaman Abu Samah

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor Malaysia, Department of Professional Development and Continuing Education, Faculty of Educational Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KI SMY AAS. Performed the experiments: KI AH BAS HAMS SMY AAS. Analyzed the data: KI HAMS BAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KI HAMS BAS. Wrote the paper: KI HAMS BAS AAS AH SMY. The sampling technique - simple random sampling, was performed by: KI SMY AAS. The pre-test was performed by: HAMS. Pre-test actual data collection was performed by: KI AH BAS HAMS SMY AAS. Used SPSS for performing the required analyses: KI HAMS BAS. Descriptive analyses of the study - frequency, percentage, mean score and standard deviation: KI HAMS. Inferential analyses of the study - independent t-test, ANOVA, pearson correlation: BAS. Developed the article draft: KI HAMS. Edited and polished introduction part: KI. Edited and polished Subjective Measurement vs Objective Measurement of QoL and Tembeling, Pahang and Muar Rivers and its relation to the river community parts: SMY. Edited and polished Malaysian QoL Dimensions part (Yassin et al., 2011): HAMS. Edited and developed QoL: Malaysia vs neighboring countries: AAS AH.