Factors Affecting Volunteering of First Year High Vocational Certificate Students at Vocational Colleges Under the Office of the Vocational Education Commission in Krungthep Maha Nakhon
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This research article aim to (1) the level of factors in the aspects of family relationship, human-environment relations, relationship with friends, relationship with society, attitude towards volunteer work, and the level of volunteering of first year high vocational certificate students at public vocational colleges under the Office of the Vocational Education Commission in Krungthep Maha Nakhon. (2) the causal relationship model of the factors and volunteering of the students. and (3) the direct and indirect effects of factors affecting volunteering of the students. The researcher conducted the research using a quantitative research method. by distributing 520 questionnaires. The statistics used in the research were descriptive statistics. and inferential statistics using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis using LISREL program.
The results of the research revealed that: The relationship factor of person and environment in Hypothesis 9 had the most influence on volunteerism, followed by the factor on family relationship in Hypothesis 7, had the greatest influence on volunteerism, equal to 0.39, which was a significant influence. Statistically significant at the 0.01 level and after using the package to check the consistency of the structural equation model. It was found that all indices passed the standard, Therefore, it can be concluded that the results of this analysis are consistent with the empirical data.
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