The social impact of COVID-19 in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia / Nurin Iwanee Mardhiah Mohammad Jefree and Nurul Izzah Aminuddin

• Main Authors: Mohammad Jefree, Nurin Iwanee Mardhiah, Aminuddin, Nurul Izzah
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Statistical data; Social psychology; Social groups. Group dynamics; Social institutions
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/73768/1/73768.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/73768/

The purpose of this research is to find out the social impact of Covid-19 in Georgetown, Penang: family households’ relations, working interactions, students’ interactions among the society at Georgetown, Penang. The quantitative research method has been used in this research. The researchers had distributed the survey online through Google Form to all societies in Georgetown, Penang. Descriptive analysis was used to determine the impact of Covid-19 among the Georgetown citizens and the Pearson’s correlation was used to investigate the relationship of the family households’ relations, the working interactions and the students’ interactions. The research’s findings revealed that all three independent variables have relationship with the impact of Covid-19. More researchers may keep improving on this study by using more factors to evaluate the social impact of Covid-19 since this research is still new and has few sources to be used in the future study.