The Ethical Behaviors Development Model of Rajabhat University Undergraduate Students in the North-East Regional Areas

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to find a concept of ethical behavior theory by interviewing 6 of experts, 2) to examine the structural equation modeling of ethical behavior with empirical data, 400-person samples by simple random sampling technique, 3) to build a development form of ethical behavior of students, 20 student samples from a target group of students, and 4) to test and assess the development form of ethical behavior of students where  the target was 150 students samples by specified sampling.

The research results showed that 1) there were 5 dimensions of the concept of ethical behavior theory which are 1. Understanding, 2. Attitude, 3. Judgment, 4. Behavior, and 5. Personality.

2) Results of confirmatory factor analysis of the relationship model of ethical behavior structure model and empirical data of students showed that the structure reliability = 0.998, and the structure accuracy met the based line, X² = 124.465, df = 94, P-value = 0.225, CFI = 0.721, TLI = 0.643, SRMR = 0.063, RMSEA = 0.019, and X²/df = 1.302 < 2

3) Building the ethical behavior development form of the students of the Rajabhat universities in the northeastern of Thailand, on an academic institute dimension, gives 2 ethical activities which are (1) ethical development activity for true friend part by Thinking and Telling Friend, and (2) ethical activity by self-control under a social order. On ethics and curriculum integration, the development form gives 2 activities, (1) activity for ethics and desired values according to the curriculum development, and (2) activity for moral, ethical, and personality development.

4) The experiment results of ethical behavior development on Knowledge, Attitude, Judgment, Behavioral, and Personality showed that the ethical behavior of the students was developed to a better level with 0.05 statistical significance.