A Study of the Characteristics of Students Based on Five Precepts of Primary Schools in Bang Khen District of Bangkok

Abstract

Objectives of this research were 1) to study the suitable state of students’ characteristics based on Five Precepts 2) to study the development students’ characteristics based on Five Precepts and 3) to examine the relevance of students’ characteristics based on Five Precepts in Primary schools. It was a study developed from the explicit data using a Scheduled Interview and questionnaire to collect data from a sample of 250 students. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and confirmatory factor analysis in statistical software.

            Results of the study were as follows:

            Regarding the suitable state of students’ characteristics based on Five Precepts it found that all aspects were related to each other at the statistical significance of 0.001 and Correlation coefficient range was in between 0.43 to 0.73.

            For the development students’ characteristics based on Five Precepts it found that from the variable analysis of variables by a factor rotation by means of Varimax method it could obtain 5 main factors and 49 indicators students’ characteristics based on Five Precepts including Factor 1: the first item of killing, Factor 2: the second item of steeling, Factor 3: the third item of sexual conduct, Factor 4: the fourth item of telling lie, and Factor 5: the fifth item of intoxicant drinking.

            With regard to the examination of students’ characteristic relevance based on Five Precepts it found that students’ characteristics based on Five Precepts in Primary schools in Bang Khen district of Bangkok was relevant to the explicit data equal to x2= 948.43, df = 1077, p = 0.00, x2/df = 0.00 which indicated that the model and empirical data were consistent.