Factors Influencing Happiness of Academic supporting staff of Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to: 1) explore factors influencing happiness of academic supporting staff of Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University; and 2) compare happiness of academic support staff members with different demographic factors including genders, age, marital status, educational background, and period of work, as well as life the quality of their working life. The research sample consisted of 276 staff members. Data were collected via the use of a questionnaire and analyzed with a software package. Statistics used to analyze the data included frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, F-test and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficients.      

The research findings revealed that: 1) the overall quality of working life of academic supporting staff of the university was at a high level, and when considering at each aspect, it was found that every aspect was also rated at a high level, The overall happiness of these staff members was high. Similarly, each aspect of their happiness was also rated at a high level. 2) Staff members with different gender, age and education background tended to have different level of happiness at work, with a .01 and .05 level of statistical significance. Other demographic background was not found to have an influence on the staff members’ happiness at work.