Open AccessAnalysis of personal financial management behavior in higher education student
Author(s) -
Abel Tasman,
Deny Ari Efendi,
Erni Masdupi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
jurnal kajian manajemen bisnis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2622-0865
pISSN - 2302-6359
DOI - 10.24036/jkmb.10881600
Subject(s) - locus of control , financial management , finance , theory of planned behavior , psychology , control (management) , medical education , management , economics , social psychology , medicine
Personal financial management behavior is one of the interesting topics in financial management because in practice there are links with other science such as psychology and sociology. This research aimed to analyze the influence of (1) financial knowledge (2) internal locus of control and (3) parental income on personal financial management behavior. The population in this research are undergraduate students in the Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Padang consists of 1,658 students. The samples were selected by using a clustered random sampling to get as much of the total samples of 100 students. The data of this research are primary and secondary data. The data were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) The results of this research show: (1) financial knowledge has a negative and no significant effect on personal financial management behavior of undergraduate students in the Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Padang (2) internal locus of control has a positive and significant effect on personal financial management behavior of undergraduate students in the Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Padang (3) parental income has a positive and no significant effect on personal financial management behavior of undergraduate students in the Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Padang.Keywords: Behavior finance; financial knowledge; internal locus of control; parental income