Scholar: Vol. 11, No. 2 (2019)

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    The relationship of Grade 7 students' general ICT use and attitudes towards ICT use for school related activities with ICT self-efficacy in eleven English program schools of Thailand
    (Bangkok : Assumption University, 2019) Hines, Michael G. ; Lynch, Richard
    The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of Grade 7 students’ general ICT use and attitudes towards ICT use for school-related activities to ICT self-efficacy in eleven English Program schools of Thailand. An adapted version of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment 2012, Information and Communication questionnaire was used to collect data from 559 Grade 7 English Program (EP) secondary students attending public or private (i.e., non-international) secondary schools within Central Thailand who were enrolled in an English Program during the first term of the 2017-2018 academic school year. Descriptive statistics and multiple correlation coefficients were used to analyze the data. To encourage self-access learning and provide the type of communicative and collaborative tools to EP students that promote 21st century learning skills, this researcher developed a Learning Management System (LMS) system, Icon Educate. Every incoming Grade 7 class enrolled in a participating English Program was given training on how the system can be used as well as an introduction to its content. It was found that there was a strong and positive relationship between students’ general ICT use for school-related activities and their attitudes towards ICT use for schoolrelated activities. Additionally, there was a moderately strong and negative relationship between students’ general ICT use for school-related activities and their CT self-efficacy.
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    Death anxiety, coping strategies, and empathy among Thai physicians in Chiang Mai
    (Bangkok : Assumption University, 2019) Handagoon, Sasisupa Arizaiah ; Varma, Parvathy
    This study investigates the relationship of years of experience and death anxiety to the empathy of Thai physicians in Chiang Mai toward their patients, as mediated by coping strategies (engaged, disengaged, and both). A total of 143 physicians (ages of 25 and 75) from four hospitals in Chiang Mai, who completed a self-administered questionnaire that was designed to measure the study’s variables, namely demography, death anxiety, coping strategy, and empathy. The results of the study indicate that the years of experience of Chiang Mai’s physicians directly and significantly relate to their reported level of death anxiety and empathy. Meanwhile, death anxiety is indirectly related to empathy when mediated by coping strategies. The results also reveal that physicians with a higher level of death anxiety tended to employ disengagement and coping strategies. Lastly, physicians who utilized all types of coping strategies reported higher levels of empathy toward their patients. These findings suggest that as Thai physicians in Chiang Mai become more anxious about death and feel more empathy toward their patients as they gain professional experience. While contending with death anxiety, they are more apt to employ disengagement or coping strategies; however, an engaged coping strategy is more likely to promote empathy in comparison to other strategies. The implications of these findings may assist physicians in further understanding death anxiety and identifying the most strategy to cope and generate empathy toward their patients.
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    The relationship between teachers' demographic profiles and teachers' perception towards the internal quality assurance assessment at program level in two secondary high schools in Laiza and Mai Ja Yang Townships, Kachin State, Myanmar
    (Bangkok : Assumption University, 2019) Tun, Aung Ya ; Ye, Yan
    The purpose of this study was to determine the teachers’ perception towards Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) Assessment at program level and relationship with the teachers’ demographic factors: age, educational qualification, years of service in school, and academic rank in two Secondary High Schools in Laiza and Mai Ja Yang Townships, Kachin State, Myanmar, and to compare teachers’ perception towards internal quality assurance system according to teachers’ gender. Two set of questionnaires were used to conduct this study: Questionnaires for teachers’ demographic profile and Questionnaires for Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) Assessment at Program Level. 95% of the questionnaires were returned valid and data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r). The findings of objectives were that the teachers’ perception towards total internal quality assurance system based on fifteen components was at low level. Therefore, there was no significant difference between male teachers and female teachers’ perception towards internal quality assurance system according to teachers’ gender. There was no significant relationship between internal quality assurance system at program level and other teachers’ demographic factors. Since all the significant values were bigger than .05 at the significant level. The study recommended that school’s principals and board committee members should pay more attention to focus on IQA strategic planning and implementation process in order for promoting schools’ quality.
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    Stress and life satisfaction among medical students in Myanmar: the mediating role of coping styles
    (Bangkok : Assumption University, 2019) Myint Oo, Agnes Mary Khine ; Mohanan, Santhosh Ayathupady
    This study investigate the direct effect of perceived stress on life satisfaction and the indirect effect between stress and life satisfaction mediated by the three different coping styles; problem-focused coping, emotional-focused coping, the avoidance focused coping The participants were medical students from first year to final year from two medical universities in Yangon, Myanmar. The quantitative research employed path analysis using survey questionnaires of 216 students obtain via convenient sampling. The path analysis result showed that the relationship between problem-focused coping and life satisfaction is highly significant. The result also found that the stress inversely predicts the emotional focused coping. This research finding may provide some reference for future research in the area of stress and wellness of medical students.
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    The direct and indirect influences of self-compassion on alcohol consumption among Thai businessmen, mediated by stress and depression
    (Bangkok : Assumption University, 2019) Darnell, Lihi ; Varma, Parvathy
    The current research aimed to explore the direct and indirect influences of self-compassion (SC) on alcohol consumption (AC), being mediated by stress and depression among Thai businessmen in Bangkok, Thailand. This research investigation employed quantitative methods based on data derived from a self-report survey questionnaire on a population of 266 Thai businessmen (N=266). This study used the correlation approach via path analysis to determine if the targeted population’s level of SC can predict their level of AC, both directly and indirectly, being mediated by their levels of stress and depression. The findings demonstrated significant direct influence of SC on AC. It was also found that SC has negative direct influence on stress and depression, indicating that the more self-compassionate the participants are, the lower is their level of depression and stress. Surprisingly, this research did not find an indirect influence of SC on AC, being mediated by stress and depression. The findings, conclusions, limitations, and recommendations of the study were discussed accordingly.