The Study of Personality Factors and the Mental Health of the students in Kasetsart University of Different Academic Level

Abstract

The main point of this study was to focus on personality actors and mental health of the students in Kasetsart University at different academic achievement level. The objective of this study was 1) To compare the personality factors of the students in Kasetsart University at different academic achievement level in each field. 2) To compare the mental health of the students in Kasetsart University at different academic achievement level in each field. 3) to investigate the personality factors that influence upon academic achievement. The subjects of this study were 242 second-year students (1984-1985) of Kasetsart University. Samples were selected by stratified Sampling technique. Data collectings were done by asking the subjects to complete one questionnaire and two psychological tests which were for the general background, the Sixteen Personality Factors and the Symptom checklist 90. Results might be concluded as follows : 1. The pure science students who got high academic achievement level had significantly more personality scores of B-factor than those students who got low academic achievement level at the statistical level of .05 2. The pure science students who got low academic achievement level had significantly more personality scores of H-factor than those students who got high academic achievement level at the statistical level of .05 3. The applied science students who got high academic achievement level had significantly more personality scores of I-factor than those students who got low academic achievement level at the statistical level of .05 4. The applied science students who got low academic achievement level had significantly more personality scores of C-factor than those students who got high academic achievement level of the statistical level of .05 5. The social science students who got high academic achievement level didn’t have significantly different personality scores of sixteen factors from those who got low academic achievement level at the statistical level of .05 6. The pure science students, the applied science students and the social science students who acquired high academic achievement level did not have significantly different mental health scores of nine items from those students who acquired low academic achievement level at the statistical level of .05. But it was remarkable that those students who acquired high academic achievement level had tendency to get more mental health scores than those students who acquired low academic achievement level. 7. The insightful, fast-learning and intellectual adaptable students might be successful in studying the pure-science subjects. 8. The emotional sensitivity and imaginative students might be successful in studying the applied-science subjects.