Factors that affected Students’ Public Mind Behavior, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Rajamangala University of Technology Rattanakosin

Abstract

The purpose of this research were to study 1. Public mind behavior 2. Factors that affected to the students’ public mind behavior 3. Comparison of public mind behavior according to different personal factors (genders, majors, class levels) 4. Relationship between internal factors, external factors and the students’ public mind behavior. The sample group of 230 students selected by cluster random sampling method were studying in the second semester of academic year 2013 at the Faculty of Liberal Arts. The instrument used for collecting data were questionnaires. Data were analyzed by using the percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, the analysis of variance and Person’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The research findings were as follows: 1. The level of samples’ behavior in public mind overall were at a much level. 2. The internal factor of moral reasoning and the external factor of family support were found having influences upon the public mind behavior at the most level. 3. Different genders, majors and class levels did not have an effect in public mind behavior overall significantly at statistic level of 0.05. 4. The internal factors of moral reasoning and motivation and the external factors of family support, university support, community support and peer support were positive relationship with the students’ public mind behavior at the 0.01 level of significance.