FACTOR ANALYSIS OF LIFE SKILL FOR STUDENTS UNDER THE OFFICE OF SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA 25

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1)  to study the level of life skill for students and 2) to check

congruence between a structural relationship model of life skill for student in the Office of Secondary Educational Service Area 25 and the empirical data. The sample of 180 administrators and teachers in the Office of Secondary Educational Service Area 25 was selected by random sampling and stratified by the ratio of the number of administrators and teachers in each School. The research instrument was a questionnaire with 5 rating scale and 0.923 reliability. Analyzed data by using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The programs used for analyzing data were SPSS version 16.0 and M plus version 7.0. The research findings were.

1. The level of life skill for students in the Office of Secondary Educational Service Area 25, overall was in ‘high’. The highest of life skill for students are Interpersonal Relation (  = 3.83 , S.D.=0.56) , and then are Self Awareness (  = 3.74 , S.D.=0.63). and the lowest are Critical Thinking (  = 3.56 , S.D.=0.64)


2. The results showed that the confirmatory factors in the life skill for students in the Office of Secondary Educational Service Area 25 was perfectly filled with the empirical data. =11.533 , df=6,P-Value=0.0732, TLI=0.978. CFI=0.995, RMSEA=0.042, and SRMR=0.017. Level for every factor between 0.730 to 0.998. Ranking from 1) Critical Thinking ( = 0.998) 2) Interpersonal Relation ( = 0.992) 3) Coping with Emotion ( = 0.979 and 4) Self Awareness ( = 0.730) respectively.