Factors Fostering the Capacity for Social Innovations Among High School Students in Thailand
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The research objectives were twofold: 1) to investigate the factors that foster the ability to create social innovations among high school students in Thailand, and 2) to conduct confirmatory factor analysis and examine the influence of these factors on students' capacity for social innovation. The research was carried out in two stages: 1) a systematic review of relevant literature and 2) a survey of 514 high school students using a closed-ended questionnaire. Data were analyzed using confirmatory factor and multiple regression analyses.
The findings revealed that: there are four key factors that promote the ability to create social innovations among Thai high school students: technology and resources, learning, social aspects, and structure and processes. These factors contribute to the development of three dimensions of social innovation capacity: creativity, integration of disciplines for innovation, and social networking. The confirmatory factor analysis and multiple regression analysis of the factors showed that the four factors were consistent with the empirical data, with statistical significance at the .05 level; they could explain 61% of the variance in the students' ability to create social innovations (R2 = 61), with a correlation coefficient (R) of 0.78, which was statistically significant at the .05 level.
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