Attitudes and Awareness in ASEAN Community of Liberal Arts students in Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study and find the attitudes and awareness in ASEAN community of Liberal Arts students in Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin. The subjects were 222 undergraduate students majoring Chinese, Japanese , and English for International Communication. The stratified random sampling method was used with the number of the subjects. The research instruments were questionnaires which had a reliability of 0.97. Statistics for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Independent-Sample T Test, One Way ANOVA, and multiple comparison test with LSD. The research findings were as follows: 1. Students’ attitudes to ASEAN community were at a high level, regarding ASEAN Political-Security Community-APSC, ASEAN Economic Community-AEC and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. At significance level of 0.05, there is no difference in the attitudes to ASEAN community of students classified by gender and year of study. However, students from different majors had significantly different attitudes to ASEAN community at the 0.05 level. 2. Students’ awareness in ASEAN community was at a high level. At significance level of 0.05, there is no difference in the awareness in ASEAN community of students classified by gender and year of study. However, students from different majors had significantly different awareness in ASEAN community at the 0.05 level.