A Study of the Ethical Behavior of the Students at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University

Abstract

The objectives of the research were to study levels of the ethical behavior of the students at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University and to compare the ethical behavior of the students at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University classified by genders and levels of the years of the study. The samples used in the research were 388 students studying at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University in the first semester in the academic year of 2021. They were randomized by multi-stage sampling. The research instrument used was a five-rating scale questionnaire with the reliability of 0.95. The statistics used were percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, one-way analysis of variance, a test on pair differences by the mean of the multiple comparison test, and Fisher's Least Significant Difference (LSD) chosen in testing.

The research findings were as follows.

1. The ethical behavior of the students at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University in the overall and in aspects consisting of 6 aspects: gratitude, honesty, kindness, having disciplines and responsibility, public consciousness, and frugality, was at a high level.
2. The comparison of the ethical behavior of the students at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University classified by genders was found that the male and female students had the different ethical behavior with no statistical significance at the level of .05. However, when each aspect was considered, having disciplines and responsibility was the aspect that the male and female students had the different ethical behavior with the statistical significance at the level of 0.05 and the ethical behavior of the students at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University with the different levels of the years of the study had the different ethical behavior with the statistical significance at the level of .05.