The Results of Organizing an Adjustment Program to Develop Social Adjustment of Underprivileged Students Faculty of Management Sciences, Prince of Songkla University
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The objective of this research was to investigate and experiment influences of an adjustment program on the experimental and control groups,in order to develop social adjustment of underprivileged students at the Faculty of Management Sciences, Prince of Songkla University. The research was conducted using Randomized Solomon four-group design. By simple random sampling, the samples of the research were 36 underprivileged students who had lower scores of the social adjustment than the criteria. The samples were divided into four groups: two experiment groups (E1E2) with 9 samples in each group and two control groups (C1C2) with 9 samples in each group. The samples in the experiment groups (E1E2) participated in the adjustment program for 10 times, and the samples in the control groups (C1C2) were given information explosion for 5 times. The data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, t-test and two-way analysis of variance. The results of the overall assessment and each assessment item in the program revealed that, after the program, the students had more social adjustment than they did before joining the program. The adjustment program was found to influence on the social adjustment of the students who both did and did not do the pre-test before joining the program, with the statistical significance at .05. In addition, the adjustment program and the pre-test before the program affected social adjustment with the statistical significance at .05. The adjustment program and the study programs also impacted on the students’ social adjustment with the statistical significance
at .05.
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