Measurement Model of Life skills in Sa Kaeo High School Students for Thailand 4.0 Era
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Life Skills had importance with Thailand 4.0 Era. This research aimed to develop and validate Confirmatory Factor Analysis model of Life Skills of High School Students in Sa Kaeo province in the era. The research sample comprised of 500 students which were drawn by Proportional Stratified Random Sampling. Research instrument was a life skill questionnaire. The data analysis was done by means of Confirmatory Factor Analysis using LISREL. Using the Confirmatory Factor Analysis, the results indicated that the model of Life Skills of High School Student in Sa Kaeo were 2 Factors, Critical Cognitive Skills, Social and Emotional Skills Divided into 10 facet include Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Effective Communication, Self-Awareness, Empathy, Interpersonal Relationship Skill, Coping with Stress, and Coping with Emotions. The results was in accordance with the empirical data and the Life skills of High School Student in Sa Kaeo was composed of two latent variables with five manifest variables each. The factor loadings for all 10 variables were positive. The standardized factor loadings ranging from .50 to .84 and were statistically significant at .01. For the first latent variable, Critical Cognitive Skills, there were standardized factor loadings ranging from .62 to .81 and, specifically, the highest loading was Critical thinking. For the second latent variable, Social and Emotional Skills, there were standardized factor loadings ranging from .50 to .84 and, specifically, the highest loading was Empathy.
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