Confirmatory Factors Analysis of the Spirituality of Community Development Officers
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The research aims to analyze the confirmatory factors of the spirituality of community development officers with empirical data. The participants were 220 community development officers of the Community Development Department, the Ministry of Interior in the position of the district’s community development officers, and community development academic officers who worked in the district offices in 76 provinces of Thailand, selected through the multistage random sampling technique. The research tool was a 5-level rating scale questionnaire consisting of 29 items. The data were analyzed by frequency and percentages using a statistic analysis program and the confirmatory factor analysis by the LISREL program.
The results of this research were as follows: 1) The community development officers’ spirituality consisted of 5 components and 29 indicators. They were divided into 6 indicators of the public mind, 4 indicators of compassion, 8 indicators of trustworthiness, 5 indicators of teamwork, and 6 indicators of thinking outside the box. 2) The result of the second-order confirmatory factor analysis showed that the resulting model fit with empirical data.
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