The Effects of Using a Guidance Activities Package to Reduce the Materialism Concept of Upper Secondary Students at Triam Udom Suksa Pathumwan School in Bangkok Metropolis

Abstract

                The purposes of this study were (1) to compare the materialism concept reduction levels of upper secondary students at Triam Udom Suksa Pathumwan School in Bangkok Metropolis, who were in the experiment group, before and after using a guidance activities package; (2) to compare the materialism concept reduction level of the experimental group students  who used the guidance activities package and the counterpart reduction level of the control group students who received a set of guidance information; and (3) to compare the materialism concept reduction level of the experimental group students at the end of the experiment with their counterpart reduction level in the follow-up period.

                This research is a quasi-experimental research.  The research sample consisted of 60 purposively selected upper secondary students at Triam Udom Suksa Pathumwan School in Bangkok Metropolis in the 2015 academic year.  Then they were randomly assigned into an experimental group and a control group, each of which consisting of 30 students.  The experimental group students were trained for 12 periods with the use of a guidance activities package to reduce the materialism concept; while the control group students received a set of guidance information to study.  The employed research instruments were (1) a guidance activities package to reduce the materialism concept, (2) a set of guidance information, and (3) a scale to assess the materialism concept, with reliability coefficient of .95.  Statistics for data analysis were the mean, standard deviation, and t-test.  

                The results of this research showed that (1) after experiment, upper secondary students at Triam Udom Suksa Pathumwan School, who were in the experimental group, were able to reduce their materialism concept significantly at the .05 level; (2) after the experiment, the level of materialism concept of the experimental group students, who used the guidance activities package, was significantly more reduced than the counterpart level of the control group students who received the guidance information; and (3) no significant difference was found between the materialism concept reduction level at the end of the experiment of the experimental group students and their counterpart reduction level in the follow-up period.