Causal relationship of adversity quotient arising from bullying among junior high school ethnic minority students in upper northern Thai schools

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the causal relationship of the adversity quotient arising from bullying among junior high school ethnic minority students. The sample consisted of 300 junior high school ethnic minority students in upper northern Thai schools; the data were derived from a multi-stage random sampling, and collected using questionnaires; lastly, they were analyzed using a causal structure relationship analysis. The results revealed that the developed model was consistent with the empirical data and that only the optimism variable had a direct effect on the adversity quotient arising from bullying, with a .80 path coefficient; furthermore, it was found that optimism could explain the 63 percent of the variance of adversity quotient arising from bullying. It can be concluded that optimism is an important variable that has direct effect on adversity quotient arising from bullying of ethnic students.