Action Research to Reduce The Stress for Princess ChulabhornCollegeLoei, LoeiProvience

Abstract

This action research concerned the stress reduction of the Matayomsuksa 1 students of Princess Chulabhorn’s College Loei. The objectives of the study includes to investigate the stress problems of the students, to find stress reduction guides for the students, to compare the stress levels of the students before and after the stress reduction activities and to measure the satisfaction of the students toward the stress reduction activities. The target group comprises 96 Matayomsuksa 1 students. The informants of the qualitative data includes 4 school administrators, 12 student assistants, 8 advisors, 15 dormitory supervisors, a psychiatrist, and the 20 students. They were selected by purposive samplingmethod. The research instrument includes 1) quantitative data collection: stress questionnaires from the Department of Mental Health, satisfaction questionnaires,2) qualitative data collection: in-depth interviews and student interviews.The quantitative analyses were made in terms of frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, and by t-test. The qualitative analyses were carried out by the content analysis technique.