Study of environmental factors and student activities affecting the enhancement of good citizenship characteristics of undergraduate students at Phuket Rajabhat University

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The objectives of this pilot study were as followings: 1) to study the level of availability of the facilities for students’ activities, level of environmental factors, level of student activities, and level of good citizenship characteristics of students and 2) to study the effect of environmental factors and student activities on the enhancement of good citizenship characteristics of the students. The respondents were 293 undergraduate students at the Faculty of Management Science, Phuket Rajabhat University. Sampling was done by purposive sampling of the third and fourth-year undergraduate students that have experienced various student activities fully. The instrument for the research was a questionnaire. The data was analyzed by using statistical methods; including descriptive analysis, Pearson correlation coefficient, and Multiple regression. The results could be concluded as follows: firstly, the level of facilities available for students’ activities was at a medium level. Secondly, the level of environmental factors and students’ activities was at a high level. Thirdly, the level of good citizenship was at a high level. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the collected data to test the hypothesis. The results showed that two independent variables could predict statistically significant the good citizenship characteristics including primary social group factors and activities in promoting art and culture activities with a 59.5% forecast power and a sum of squared predicted error of 0.40788.