A Study of Attitudes toward Santosa (contentment) Behaviors of Students of Standard VIII in Bangkok

Abstract

The research entitled ‘A Study of the Attitudes toward Santosa (contenment) behaviors of Students of Standard VIII in Bangkok’ aims to study Standard VIII students’ attitudes toward Santosa (contenment) behaviors, and to comparatively study Standard VIII students’ attitude toward Santosa (contenment) behaviors classified by basic factors and school sizes in the educational areas of Bangkok. This is a survey research. The data were collected by administering questionnaires to 353 Standard VIII students from 9 schools in the Educational Area of Bangkok in the academic year 2011. Statistics used for the data analysis are Percentage, Mean (), Standard Deviation (S.D.), t-test and One-Way Analysis of Variance. The results of the study were as follows:

1. Regarding the Bangkok Standard VIII students’ attitudes on the Santosa (contentment) behaviors, it was found that their attitudes, as a whole, were in a high level. When considering for each aspect, it was also found that all aspects of students attitudes were in high level in the following orders: contentment with what one gets and deserves to get, contentment with what is within one’s capacity and contentment with what is befitting.


2. Regarding the result of the comparative analysis of the Bangkok Standard VIII students’ attitude toward Santosa behavior classified by males and females, it was, as a whole, found that they were not significantly different in their attitudes which was not in accordance with the hypothesis set up and while individually considering, it was also found not to be significantly different.

                   3. Concerning the comparative analysis of the Bangkok Standard VIII students’ attitude toward the Santosa (contentment) behaviors classified by Grade Points Average of all subjects, the size of schools, and parents’ occupation and status through the One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), it was found that the students who have different GPA, different sizes of schools and different parents’ occupation and status were not different in their attitudes toward Santosa (contentment) behaviours