The Effects of Using a Guidance Activities Package Together with Buddhist Meditation Practice to Develop Work Commitment Behavior of Mathayom Suksa II Students of Wattanapruksa School in Nonthaburi Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: (1) compare the work commitment behavior of Mathayom Suksa II Students in the experimental group, before and after using guidance activities package together with the Buddhist meditation practice known as Aa naa bpaan sà-dtì to develop the work commitment behavior; (2) compare work commitment behavior of students between the experiment group and the control group that used regular guidance activities; and (3) compare the work commitment behavior of the experiment group between post-experiment period and the follow up period. The research sample consisted of 30 Mathayom Suksa II students of Watthanaphrueksa Nonthaburi School. The pairing method was used to divide 15 students into experimental groups and 15 control groups using simple randomization. The research instruments were: (1) the work commitment behavior test with reliability coefficient of .88; (2) the guidance activities package together with the Buddhist meditation practice to develop the work commitment behavior; and (3) regular guidance activities. Statistics employed for data analysis were the mean, standard deviation and t-testing. The results found that: (1) after using the guidance activities package, the experimental group had higher work commitment behavior than before using the guidance activities package at the .05 level of statistical significance; (2) after the experiment, the experimental group had higher work commitment behavior than the control group used regular guidance activities at the .05 level of statistical significance; and (3) no statistical significant difference was found in the experimental group students between the post-experiment period and the follow up period.