The Study of Resilience Quotient of the Secondary Private School Students in Bangkok

Abstract

The purposes of this survey research were to study 1. the Resilience Quotient study of secondary school students and 2. the comparison of the Resilience Quotient among: age range of 13-15 years and 16-18 years, sex of male and female, education level of junior high school and senior high school, male and female of junior high school, and male and female of senior high school. The total of 154 research samples were selected by purposive sampling comprised of secondary school students of a private school in Bangkok. The Measurements used in this study consisted of Resilience Scale (RS - 15, 13 - 18 years) developed by Department of Mental Health, Ministry of Public Health 1with the reliability of 0.796. Data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation and individual t-test.

It showed that 1.the Resilience Quotient level of secondary school students at age range of 13-18 years devided into 3 levels were high level 1.95 %, moderate level 77.92 %, and low level 20.13 % and 2. the Resilience Quotient among: age range of 13-15 years and 16-18 years, sex of male and female, education level of junior high school and senior high school, male and female of junior high school were significantly different at the statistical level of .05 and the Resilience Quotient between male and female of senior high school were not different.