POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL UNDER NEW NORMAL OF STUDENT TEACHERS IN THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION PHRANAKHON SRI AYUTTHAYA RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to study confirmatory factor of the positive psychological capital under New Normal of student teachers in the Faculty of Education Phranakhon Sri Ayutthaya Rajabhat University, and 2) to test the consistency of the positive psychological capital model of student teachers in the Faculty of Education Phranakhon Sri Ayutthaya Rajabhat University. The target group used in the research was all student teachers studying in the first year of the academic year 2021, Faculty of Education, Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University, from 9 disciplines, totaling 223 students. The research instruments were the positive psychological capital under New Normal scale confirmatory factor analysis and the consistent test of the positive psychological capital by using Mplus 6.12.

1. 1. The factor of positive psychological capital under new normal of student teachers in the Faculty of Education Phranakhon Sri Ayutthaya Rajabhat University consisted of 4 factors according to priority of factor loading as follows: Resilience (.939), Hope (.902), Optimism (.861) and Self-Efficacy (.837).

1. 2. The model for measuring positive psychological capital under new normal was correlated with the empirical data at the statistical significance level of .05 x² (1, n=222) = 1.172, p = .279, CFI = 1.000, TLI = .997, SRMR=.010, RMSEA = .028) and component weights in the standard score from 0.837 to 0.939 were statistically significant for all components.