This study had 2 purposes as follows: 1. to study the use of the Five Ennobling Virtues Principle for living of Lower Secondary School students of Wat Tsai School (Thawornprommanukul), Chom Thong district, Bangkok and 2. to compare the use of the Five Ennobling Virtues Principle for living of Lower Secondary School students of Wat Tsai School (Thawornprommanukul), Chom Thong district, Bangkok with different factors; sex, level, residence, parents’ occupation, and parents’ income per month. The research instruments were questionnaire consisted of subjects’ general information, the use of the Five Ennobling Virtues Principle for living of Lower Secondary School students. The data were analyzed by using frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, f-test (One Way ANOVA), and Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient.

The results revealed as follows.

A.    General information

Most of students were male and female respectively. In terms of educational level, the results revealed that most of the subjects were studying in Mattayom Suksa 2. Some of them were studying in Mattayom Suksa 3 and Mattayom Suksa 1 respectively. In terms of their parents’ occupation, the results were found that most of them were employees, house workers, government officers, and state-owned enterprise officers respectively. In the aspect of students’ living condition, the results also revealed that the majority of students stay with their parents, their relatives respectively. Few of them stay in apartments. In terms of their parents’ income per month, the average of their family’ income was more than 1,100 baht, 1,000 baht, and 800 baht respectively. Few of them earn 900 baht per month.

The use of the Five Ennobling Virtues Principle for living of Lower Secondary School students of Watsai School, Chom Thong district, Bangkok was in the average level. When considering each aspect, the results confirmed that sexual desire was at the highest level ( = 3.48, SD.= .598), being conscious ( = 3.32, SD. = .578), truth ( = 3.32, SD. = .488), sympathy ( = 3.13, SD. = .574) and right livelihood ( = 3.11, SD.= .570) respectively.

B. The difference of the use of the Five Ennobling Virtues Principle of living, the data were divided according to personal data. The results revealed that students with different sex, parents’ occupation, living condition, and income the use of the Five Ennobling Virtues Principle of living differently. When considering the average, the results confirmed that parents who are government officers and state-owned enterprise officers have better ways of living than parents who are employees.            The results were also found that students with 800 baht of average family income use five dharma better than students with 1,000 baht of average family income. The results also revealed that the different of educational level did not make students the use of the Five Ennobling Virtues Principle of living differently.

C.    The problem suggestion and solution

The results confirmed that most of students had their own suggestion and it could be explained as follows. In the sympathy aspect, students did not kill animals and did not bully their friends. In terms of right livelihood aspect, students did not steal their friends’ things. In the sexual desire aspect, students did not steal their friends’ favorite things. In the truth aspect, students did not tell the lies and they avoided using rude words. In the aspect of being conscious, students were conscious every time and they could also separate the good things from the bad things.

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