Guidelines for Student Affairs Management to Promote Students’ Mental Health in Schools under Secondary Educational Service Area Office Chonburi Rayong

Abstract

The objectives of this paper were: (1) to examine student affairs administration for promoting students’ mental health; (2) to analyze approaches to student affairs administration for promoting students’ mental health; and (3) to propose approaches to student affairs administration for promoting students’ mental health in educational institutions under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Chonburi–Rayong. A mixed-methods research design was employed. For the quantitative research, the sample consisted of 352 teachers and educational personnel from the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Chonburi–Rayong. The research instrument was a questionnaire with an item–objective congruence (IOC) index ranging from 0.60 to 1.00 and an overall reliability coefficient of 0.957. For the qualitative research, 17 key informants, including teachers and educational personnel, were selected through purposive sampling. Data were analyzed using content analysis and presented in a descriptive form. The findings revealed that:

            1) student affairs administration for promoting students’ mental health was at the highest level. When ranked by mean scores from highest to lowest, the dimensions were school health services; the creation of a positive culture and supportive environment; the promotion of discipline, morality, and ethics; and the promotion of democracy in schools; 2) the analysis of approaches to student affairs administration for promoting students’ mental health comprised four dimensions: school health services, the creation of a positive culture and supportive environment, the promotion of discipline, morality, and ethics, and the promotion of democracy in schools; and 3) the proposed approach was explained through systems theory, consisting of inputs, processes, outputs, outcomes, feedback, and impacts, and was driven by the PDCA (Plan–Do–Check–Act) cycle, covering four dimensions: school health services, the creation of a positive culture and supportive environment, the promotion of discipline, morality, and ethics, and the promotion of democracy in schools.