The factors of social adjustment of Technical Education Faculty students B.S. of Technical Education (5 years curriculum)

Abstract

This paper is a survey research. The objective is to study the factors of Social Adjustment of Technical Education Faculty Students B.S. of Technical Education (5 years curriculum), Faculty of the industrial education, Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon. The random sampling is conducted within the full-time students from 3 majors. The random sampling technique in this paper is derived from Krehbiel-Morgan table. The total number of sample is 167 students. Research Methodology This paper uses the survey method to collect the data. The data analysis process is based on the average percentage, value of standard deviation and t-test F-test techniques. The research results can be summarized as follows: 1. Students with different genders have overall social adjustment ability indifferently. 2. Students with different ages have overall social adjustment indifferently. This implies that age is not a factor in social adjustment. 3. Students who graduated from different curriculum have overall social adjustment ability differently. The students who graduated from vocational-qualification curriculum have overall social adjustment ability higher than students who graduated from academic-qualification curriculum. In specific aspect of social adjustment to classmate, the result is also the same. 4. Students with different sequence of birth have overall social adjustment ability indifferently. 5. Students with different family status in society have overall social adjustment ability indifferently. 6. Students with their parents in different occupation have overall social adjustment ability indifferently. 7. Students with different average-income-per-month families have overall social adjustment ability indifferently. However, in specific aspect of social adjustment to general person, the students with higher average-income-per-month families have social adjustment ability better than the students with lower average-income-per-month families. 8. Students with different family characteristics have overall social adjustment ability differently. The students with large family have overall social adjustment ability higher than students with small family.