THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACTIVITY SET TO ENHANCING STRESS MANAGEMENT ABILITY FOR STUDENTS AT FACULTY OF EDUCATION

Abstract

This research objectives aim to 1) develop and study the activity set to enhance the stress management ability of education students; 2) study the effect of using an activity set for stress management on students in the Faculty of Education and 3) compare the effects of using a set of stress management activities on students in the Faculty of Education between the experimental group and the control group. The research samples were 303 education students of Rambhai Barni Rajabhat University who were in their 1st-3rd year studying in a 4 year bachelor’s degree program in the academic year 2021. The data was collected by using the stress management ability test for education students and the group activities program to enhance the stress management ability of education students. The research samples were selected by multi-stage sampling. The statistics used for data analysis were the independent-sample t-test and the paired-sample t-test.

The research findings found that the set of stress management activities enhanced the stress management abilities of students in the Faculty of Education. The activities contained 8 activities, and after the experiment was completed, the experimental groups had significantly higher scores in stress management abilities among students in the Faculty of Education compared to before the experiment, with the statistical significance at.01. In addition, the experimental group has significantly higher scores compared to the control group, with statistical significance at .01.

The hypothesis testing results showed that the Education students who completed the stress management activities set were better at dealing with stress. Moreover, the Education students who used the activity set to enhance their stress management abilities had higher stress management abilities than those who did not use a group activity program.