this was how were doing our report assignment. but still it have weakness since we're doing this when I am in matriculation.

1. CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY
What is relationship? Relationship is not about changing your partner but loving
your helpmate. It all about understands how different your spouse is from you and
accepting him or her that way. There are a few types of relationship in this world. Such as
relationship between you and your mother, father, friends, roommate and so on.
Based on Wikipedia, a roommate is a person who shares a living facility such as an
apartment or dormitory. Similar terms include suitemate, housemate, flatmate ("flat": the
usual term in British English for an apartment), or share mate (shared living spaces are often
called share homes in Australia. In the UK, the term "roommate" means a person living in
the same bedroom, whereas in the United States and Canada, "roommate" and
"housemate" are used interchangeably regardless whether a bedroom is shared. This article
uses the term "roommate" in the US sense of a person one share a residence with who is
not a relative or significant other. The informal term for roommate is roomie, which is
commonly used by university students.
Do you know what it means by good relationship and bad relationship between you
and your roommate? So, later we will look at this with further.

2. 1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
In this college, Labuan Matriculation College there are a lot of student from Sabah,
Sarawak and Labuan itself. Although the student came from different state so we can see
different kind of behaviour that can influence the relationship among LMC student with
their roommate.
From our observation, there are good and bad relationship between roommate.
There are a few problems like the student didn’t interact with their roommate or some of
them want to move to another room because of do not comfortable with their own
roommate .Besides, fighting between the roommates also the common problem that
student will face if they not aligned with their roommate.
Meanwhile, some of the student also can achieve a success in their study cause
having a good relationship between their roommates because they can study and helping
each other.
Therefore, from our observation a good or bad relationship between roommates will
affect our self especially the result of exam. While the student come to LMC want to study
and get a good result , they also want to create a good memories in LMC, but if they have a
problem with their roommate so it difficult for them to achieve it.

3. 1.3 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES:
1- To know how far roommate affect emotionally.
2- To find whether the roommate share something in common.
3- To know whether student comfortable with roommate.
4- To know how far student can trust their roommate.
5- To know whether the student knows their roommate well.

4. CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1: Definition of Good and Bad Relationship between Roommate
Sharing a room with a family member or a friend can be tough, but it becomes
especially difficult when you're sharing it with someone you barely know. A lot of people,
however, have very little choice when it comes to this matter. As much as they want to have
the room all to themselves, they are forced to give up half their space, if only to save on rent
or to fulfill college rules. If you find yourself in a similar situation, do not despair. There are
things you can do to help you cope with having a roommate, no matter who it may be.
That’s why there are two types of relationship. Either good or bad. First of all, you
have to remember that you get what you give. If you are nice to others, then others will be
nice to you as well but if you not nice with other, they sure will treat you like you treat
them.
As we all know good relationship between roommate means you can spend time and
get along with your roommate and your will find having a roommate to be an enjoyable and
positive experience. If you have a good relationship with your roommate, surely you can
share your basic cultural background. There are benefits to finding a roommate from a
different background. For example, if your roommate is a great cook of recipes from his or
her home country, then between the two of you, you can cook up two entirely different
cuisines at you home. If your roommate's second language is your primary language, then
you have the opportunity to learn a second language from a native speaker. If you can do all
this with your roommate, maybe its means that you already achieve a very good
relationship between you and your roommate.
How about bad relationship between roommate? Bad relationship between
roommates we can define it as you cannot pair up with a roommate so that you always and
only found his/her weaknesses and vice versa. You and your roommate both will not get any
benefit from this relationship. You only get under one roof, but cannot get along as a half

5. family. For example, you cannot respect, communication, understanding each other with
sincerity, cannot share your things, opinion, always fought, and most important cannot
keep trust each other. All this will cause your happy life will bounce away.

6. 2.2 : EFFECTS OF BAD AND GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH ROOMMATE
IN OUR LIFE
 Bad Effects
Living with a crappy dorm roommate could drag down your GPA as well as your mood.There
is no shortage of research to prove roommate relations factor heavily into a student's
overall sanity."Roommate peer effects are important influences in freshman year GPA and
in decisions to join social organizations, Bruce Sacerdote, Professor of Economics at
Dartmouth College, wrote in "Peer Effects With Random Assignment: Results For Dartmouth
Roommates."Another study out of the University of North Carolina found problems with
roommates as one of the biggest stressors.
eCampus News reports:
Conflict with roommates has consistently ranked among the top five reasons students drop
out of college. Schools that have used self-selecting online services have reported a 65-
percent reduction in roommate conflicts, while 48 percent of residence hall staffers said
conflicts were “less severe” after adopting the service.
Instead of trying to implement their own process to find incoming freshmen their best
match’s, colleges are outsourcing the task to websites that approach the process similar to
online dating.In other hand, bad relationship with your roommate can cause unhappy life in
your college life. This will affect when you have a job. That’s because you’re not enjoy or use
that time or opportunity to get many memories with your roommate or with your college
friends.Other, it can cause you to get stress and will effects your healthy as well.

7.  Good effects
Living with a good roommate or roommate that has same characters with you can make you
feel happy and almost no worries at all. They’re also can help you in your study as well as
can make you increase and maintain your good grade as well. This can make you have a
happy life in college and you can build many memories so that all the memories that not
happy can erase. Thus, this situation will not make you regrets or no regrets at all.
Furthermore, having a good relationship with roommate you can share many things
together. For example, your secret, problem and you also can ask for good advice. If you
having any problem, they will notice and ask you. So, don’t wait anymore, just tell and
probably you two can try to solve and faces the obstacle together. That’s what a good
relationship mean. In addition, a quote about relationship tell…“a good relationship is when
you can tell and share your problem with your partner, no secrets at all”

8. 2.3 : REASON TO HAVEA BAD RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROOMMATES
There are advantages to having a roommate, including company and shared expenses. But,
argument, misunderstanding or not feel comfortable with your roommate is the common
problem that you will face especially when this is the first time you live in the hostel with
someone else.
There are several reason why you have a bad relationship between your roommate.
Firstly, lack of communication. Sometimes people avoid direct communication because they
do not want to hurt a roommate's feelings or are afraid of rejection. Little issues can
escalate, causing big problems. If issues are not discussed immediately, angry feelings
develop and roommates will not get along.
Secondly, poor boundaries. Violating a roommate's boundaries leads to disagreements.
Using his possessions without asking, eating his food and going into his room when he isn't
home are examples of common boundary violations with roommates. The failure of one or
both roommates to be clear about personal boundaries leads to problems. If a boundary is
broken and the issue is not discussed openly, the situation can quickly become volatile.
Furthermore, grocery arguments .A common area of arguments for roommates involves
groceries. Someone can harbour bad feelings if a roommate eats her food, does not
replenish shared supplies or lets food spoil. It's best to work out a system of who buys what
and when to avoid these arguments.
Next, cleanliness .One roommate's idea of clean might not match another's.
Common areas can become dirty and lead to stress if roommates have different
expectations of who cleans, how thorough cleaning should be and when cleaning should be
done. Lastly, noise problem. One person's noise is another person's music. Roommates can
argue if one is playing music at 3 a.m. while the other wants to sleep. If your music drives
your roommate crazy, it will get on her nerves and cause a fight. Not agreeing on an
acceptable volume level, failure to wear headphones and invading your roommate's
emotional space with music she does not like are common sources of disagreements
between roommates.

9. 2.4: WAYS TO OVERCOME BAD RELATIONSHIP
As we are living in this challenge world, we all faced a very busy life to make a better life.
With or without realize, we actually involve with many different kind of relationship. We
have friendship, family ties, romances, work and school-related connections and more of it.
“Relationship colouring and make our life even better”. Just like a normal desire where all
people want a better life than it now. Marriage and family therapist Mitch Temple, author of
The Marriage Turnaround, once wrote that “in spite of the fact every relationship has its ups
and downs, successful couples have learned how to manage them and keep their love life
going”. In other hand, in order to have better and happy life we have to avoid a bad
relationship among us.
Elaine Fantle Shimberg, author of Blending Families, says that we can’t communicate when
we are checking our blackberry and watching TV. Just think of it, isn’t that true? People
nowadays lack of communication skills. For instance, teenage busy with their free world by
social network. and the older busy with their job to make a better life until they have no
time to communicate with each other. It will lower the understanding between people.
When it is roommate, they have their own life that maybe cannot be intruded by other
especially by the people they just know. It can be conclude that all relationship problems
stem from poor communication skills.
To avoid the entire relationship problem, we can work at it by always communicate with
each other in a good way. we may Talk about what we like and do not like, for example by
asking them about their self and their hobbies, then try to make a happy surrounding
between us, moreover tell them when we have a guest so that we know that we are respect
to each other, other than that, Loyola University Maryland website in the article "Managing
Roommate Conflict." Suggest that we have to tell our roommate when something is
bothering us than bottling it up. More important, Support our roommate if they is dealing
with a personal issue, like a death in the family or stress of their study and ask if they need
someone to confide them. Lastly, if the problem still cannot be resolve we have to seek for
professional help.

10. 2.5:WAY TO MAINTAIN A GOOD RELATIONSHIP
In LMC, the student will live in the hostel with four person per room. Usually in the room
there will be a student from Sarawak, Sabah and Labuan as well. As a student they will not
has a power to choose their roommate .So, it will be a problem for the some student that
can’t cooperate with their new roommate. Meanwhile, some of the student may have
grown up with lot of sibling or the first time share a room with someone else. This may
cause a problem for the student that are first time live in the hostel to get a good
relationship with their roommate.
Therefore, there are several way to maintain a good relationship with your roommate.
Firstly, be open to the new thing. Your roommate may be from someplace . They may have
a religion or lifestyle that is completely different from your own. Be open to new ideas and
experiences, especially as it to relates to what your roommate brings into your life.
Secondly, be friendly without expecting to be best friend . Don't go into your roommate
relationship thinking that you are going to be best friends for the time you're at school. It
may happen, but expecting it sets both of you up for trouble. You should be friendly with
your roommate but also make sure you have your own social circles. Thirdly, respect your
roommate’s stuff. This may seem simple, but it's probably one of the biggest reasons why
roommates experience conflict. Don't think he'll mind if you borrow his cleats for a quick
soccer game? For all you know, you just stepped over an uncross able line. Don't borrow,
use, or take anything without getting permission first.
Beside that, make sure keep common area clean because it’s each roommate’s
responsibility to keep common areas tidy so everyone can enjoy them all the same .At the
same time, don’t eat your roommate food. If you and your roommates keep separate food,
you know how annoying it is when someone else eats yours. You don’t particularly mind it
when you have a full bag or box of something I know how to share but I get rather angry
when I have a craving for something you bought only to find out that it’s gone when you go
to grab it. Roommates shouldn’t have to keep food under lock and key. If you generally keep
your hands off buying your own food helps in this context.

11. Furthermore, invite your roommate out with you. At least try to engage in an activity
that you both enjoy. For instance, go shopping together or watching movie. This gave you
ample time to talk (sometimes about things going on around the house) and to learn more
about each other, both of which enhanced the roommate dynamic. Next, give your
roommate space. Not all roommates like each other, so even if you’re living under the same
roof, you don’t have to be beasties. If your roommate isn’t particularly fond of you, don’t
push the boundaries in hopes that they’ll learn to like you; doing so will only make you seem
like a psycho. On the other hand, if you have a roommate who is smothering you, let them
know that you need a little privacy now and then. Maybe you can do like the boss does and
open the bedroom door when you’re available and close it when you want to be alone.
On the other hand, be careful of who you bring into your room and how often. You
may love having your study group into your room. But your roommate may not. Be mindful
of how often you bring people over. If your roommate studies best in the quiet, and you
study best in a group, can you alternate who hits the library and who gets the room?.Then,
talk about problems before they get out of hand . If there is a problem in your dorm it is
important to voice your opinion. While communal living is about compromise, if you have a
concern you need to speak up before the problem escalates further. Letting something
fester for too long can lead to serious problems down the road. Lastly, Let quiet time be
quiet .This is probably the most important piece of advice to keep in mind when sharing a
space with another person. Be considerate of the fact that you and your roommate
probably don't have the same sleep schedule. If your roommate goes to bed early, show
some respect by keeping quiet while they are in bed. The more respectful you are of your
roommate's habits, the more likely your early rising roommate is to respect your habit of
sleeping in late. Quiet time also includes reading , studying or time your roommate needs or
wants to themselves.

12. CHAPTER 3 : METHODOLOGY
3.1 Research Sample
The research we do is to find the relationship between student and roommate
among Labuan Matriculation College. The respondent we choose is from LMC student
which required different module. 10 student from module 1, module 2, module 3, and
accountancy respectively. Each of this module consist 5 male(boys) and 5 female(girl). This
student is 19 years old and from Sabah and Sarawak plus, there are from different ethnicity
such as Malay, Iban, Bidayuh, Dusun, Sino-rungus, Sino-dusun, Bajau-bugis, Suluk, and Lun
Bawang. The total student we picked for the research is 40 people.
3.1 Research Instrument
We used questionnaire to do this research. We distribute the surveys to each
different module stated above. For question 1, we want to knows whether the student
knows their roommate base on objective stated at number 5. Then, for the question 2,
question 3, question 4, question 5 and question8 we want to knows how far student trust
their roommate based on our objective stated at number 4 . Question 6 and question 7 is to
find whether the student roommate affect their emotionally based on objective stated at
number 1. As for question 9 and question 10, we want to find if the student feel
comfortable or not with their roommate as stated at objectives at number 3. Objective
stated at number 2 we asks at the question 11.
3.2 Research Procedure
We distribute the questionnaire about a month ago at Labuan Matriculation College
with the help of our friend from different module.

13. CHAPTER 4 :FINDINGS
Analysis and Result
Question I :
Figure 1
The figure above shows the number of respondents’ based on their gender and courses. A
total number of 10 student came from all module; Module 1, Module 2, Module 3, and
Accountancy. They’re 5 Boys and 5 Girl from each module. Thus, the total respondents’ are
40 students.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Accountancy
Girls
Boys
Number of Student based on their Gender and Courses

14. Question ii :
Figure 2
Based on the figure above shows the number of respondent’s based on their ethnicity. We
can conclude that the number of student Malay as respondents’ is the higest which is 9.
Follow by Iban 7 student , Suluk and Dusun 5 student, Lun Bawang 4 student, Bajau-Bugis
and Bidayuh 3 student, while Sino-dusun and Sino-rungus shows 3 student.
9
4
7
5 5
3 3
2 2
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Number of student based on their Ethnicity
Number of student

15. Question iii :
Figure 3
The pie chart above shows the number of student based on their hometown. Most of
student are from Sabah with 22 of student, while student from Sarawak only 18 student.
22
18 Sabah
Sarawak
Number of Student Based on their Hometown

16. Based on Question 1 on Questionnaire, the question asks whether student know their
roommate background. The student is among Labuan Matriculation College. The figure
below shows the data that have been collected.
Figure 4
From the data, it shows the percentage of respondent’s answer on whether their knows
their roommate background. 67.50% of respondent’s shows positive answer while another
32.50% shows the negative answer.
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
No Yes
32.50%
67.50%
Do you know your roommatebackground?
Percentage

17. Based on questionnaire, Question 2 asks whether the student ever fought with their
roommate. Based on questionnaire, this is data that have been collected.
Figure 5
From the data collected, we can see the percentage of student in LMC have fought with
their roommate. With 17.50%, the student answer that they have fought with their
roommate, but another 82.50%, student choose to answer that they never fought with their
roommate.
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
80.00%
90.00%
Yes No
17.50%
82.50%
Do you ever fought with your roommate?
Percentage

18. Based on Question 3 on the Questionnaire distribute to respondents’ which are student
LMC, the question asks whether they want to give something that their roommate want to
borrow from them.
Figure 6
From the results that have been collected above (whether the respondents’ would give their
stuff that their roommate want to borrow), we can see most of student would give
something that their roommate want to borrow with the number of percentage occur is
75%. Another 25% is the student that did not want their roommate borrow their stuff.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Yes No
75%
25%
Would you mind give somethingthat your
roommatewant to borrow?
Percentage

19. Based on Question 4 on the Questionnaire, it ask which of the respondents’ stuff that they
not mind if their roommate use.
Figure 7
The data above shows the number of student that not mind if their roommate want to use
or borrow based on their stuff. For this question they are given seven optional that is laptop,
iron, reference books, handphone, water heater, cloths, and others. For the others stuff the
respondents’ specify it as stationary. The respondents’ may choose at least 2 answer. 17
student choose laptop, 26 choose iron and the highest number of student is 28 which is on
reference books. Handphone obtain 10 student, 23 student choose water heater, while 6
student choose cloths and ohers stuff obtain 2 student respectively.
17
26
28
10
23
6 2
No of student give their roommateuse(borrow)their
stuff
Laptop
Iron
Reference books
Handphone
Water Heater
Cloths
Others

20. Based on Question 5 in the Questionnaire, it asks about whether the student or
respondents’ tell their roommate or not their password if their handphone or laptop have
password.
Figure 8
From the results above, it shows that whether respondents’ would tell their password of
handphone and laptop to their roommate. Most of the student choose no with percentage
obtain is 65%, while the student choose yes is 35%.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Yes No
35%
65%
Would you tell your password?
Percentage

21. Based on Question 6 in the Questionnaire asks respondent’s whether their roommate affect
their emotionally.
Figure 9
From the data above, it shows whether the roommate affected respondents ’emotionally.
The percentage of roommate not affected the respondents’ emotionally is highest value
obtain with 60%. The other 40% choose the answer that their roommate affected the
respondents’ emotionally.
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Yes No
40%
60%
Did your roommateaffect your emotionally?
Percentage

22. For Question 7 in the Questionnaire, the respondents’ need to explain why their roommate
affect the respondents’ emotionally.
The answer that the respondents’ give have negative and positive answer. For the positive
answer, the LMC student state they’re sad if their roommate sad. In addition, if they’re in
problem they’re will share with their roommate and their roommate will give advice and
make them relief. Some student said that she/he love their roommate because their
roommate is nice and a good person.
However, we also have negative answer. Some student write that they’re rarely
communicate with each other. Furthermore, some student cannot beer to see their
roommate too stress. Then, sometimes their roommate too noisy and sometimes too busy
body.
From the above data, we knows that the roommate have affected the respondents’
emotionally.

23. Based on Question 8 in the Questionnaire, asks respondents’ whether they sharing their
problem with their roommate.
Figure 10
From the data given above, it shows the percentage of LMC student share their problem
with their roommate. The data obtain that 62.50% of student which is highest number of
student choose that they share their problem with their roommate. Only 37.50% of the
student choose not to share the problem with their roommate.
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
Yes No
62.50%
37.50%
Do you share your problem with your
roommate?
Percentage

24. Based on the Questionnaire distribute to respondents’, Question 9 asks whether the
respondent feel comfortable with their roommate.
Figure 11
From the data shows above is about whether the LMC student feel comfortable with their
roommate. Most of student choose that they feel comfortable with their roommate with
50% percentage obtain. 12.50% student choose that they not feel comfortable with their
roommate, while another 37.50% of student choose it depend on their roommate.
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
Yes No Depends
50%
12.50%
37.50%
Do you feel comfortable with your roommate?
Percentage

25. Based on Question 10 in Questionnaire, we want to know why the respondents’ feel
comfortable or not comfortable with their roommate.
For the answer of why the respondents’ feel comfortable with their roommate because of
their roommate are understanding and good person. In addition they said their roommate
are trustable, sporting and they’re share many things in common. Furthermore, their
roommate offer helps whenever their have problem.
As for the answer of student that said they’re not comfortable, the reasons is the student
problem that she/he too shy with their roommate. Some student said their roommate is too
busy body that make their feel uncomfortable.
Some student have answer depend which they said sometimes, they want to keep
something in private and sometimes their roommate act make them uncomfortable.
Sometimes it just the respondents’ mood keep changing.
We can knows why student feel comfortable and uncomfortable with their roommate based
on results obtain above.

26. Based on Question 11 in the Questionnaire that asks the respondent whether the student
have share many things in common with their roommates.
Figure 12
The figure above shows the data obtain from the respondents’. For this question they’re
given seven optional that is song, interested, movies, admire, artist, games, and others. As
for the others the respondent’s specify it as fashion .They’re can choose more than one
answer. The highest number of student shows is at movie. Then, song obtain 25 of student,
10 student choose interested, 4 of student choose admire, 8 students choose for artist,
while 19 student choose games and for others 3 student have choose.
25
10
26
4
8
19
3
No of student that shre manythings in
common with roommate
Song
Interested
Movie
Admire
Artist
Games
Others

27. CHAPTER 5 : CONCLUSION
5.1 Summary of Findings
Based on objectives to knows how far the student roommate affect their
emotionally, we find that some student is not affected but some student do affect. This we
can see from the data from figure 9 that shows 60% student not affect but another 40% do
affect. This is due to how the student communicate with their roommate.
For objective to find whether the roommate share something in common, we can
see it from the data shows in Figure 12. There are many things that the student share in
common with their roommate based on optional that we given in the questionnaire.
Next for the objectives to know whether the student comfortable with their
roommate, the data collected can be see at figure 11. From the data we knows that half of
the student feel comfortable with their roommate. With 12.50%, the student answer that
they feel uncomfortable with their roommate and another 37.50% choose it depend on
their roommate act.
Then, as for objective that to knows how far the student trust their roommate we
can see from the data shows in figure 6, figure 8 and figure 10. From the data shows we can
conclude that not all student trust their roommate.
The last objective state how far the student know their roommate we can see the
data from the figure 4. Most of the student do know their roommate based on the
percentage shows 67.50% of them answer yes on question 1, while 32.50% of them answer
no which that mean they do not know their roommate well.

28. 5.2 Research Limitation
Student that choose for this research only in Labuan Matriculation College as they’re
from many courses or module, difference ethnicity and only from Sabah and Sarawak.
Difference module or courses shows difference in results. There some student state
that she/he from same places and same ethnicity with roommate, this shows us ethnicity
influence the data collected.
Difference gender also give us difference results as the male shows they share in
common in roommate many than female does.
As for conclusion, difference in criteria we use to do in this research give difference
result.
5.3 Recommendation for future research
We like to do surveys on the highest number of student so we can make more
details result. Moreover, we might see difference the way of thinking of these student. We
also want to do on the student in others origin since we have done with student from Sabah
and Sarawak.

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