Factors Affecting Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder of Rajabhat University Students During Learning in the New Normal Era

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to evaluate perceived self-efficacy, depression, stress, and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), to study factors related to ADHD of the students, and to find variables that had power to predict ADHD of the students. The samples were 447 students randomized by multi stage sampling. The research instruments were a questionnaire asking for general information, an ADHD evaluation form with the reliability of .97, a questionnaire asking for the students’ self-efficacy with the reliability of .85, an evaluation form for evaluating the stress with the reliability of .91, and a questionnaire asking for evaluating depression with the reliability of .83. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and stepwise multiple regression analysis.

      The research findings were found as follows.

1. The students perceived their self-efficacy to prevent depression and stress at a high level, the depression and stress at a low level, and ADHD at a low level.
2. ADHD of the students was related positively to the depression and the stress of the students. The variables of the depression and stress were also related positively to each other.
3. The good predictor used to predict ADHD of the students was the depression that could be used to explain the variables of ADHD of the students by 56.88% with the standard error of the prediction of 27.93.