The results-driven philosophy of sufficiency economy of Citizen by Institute of Sufficiency Economy of Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University

Abstract

Abstract

This study aimed to present method driven philosophy of sufficiency economy and determine the result--driven philosophy of sufficiency economy of citizen by Institute of Sufficiency Economy of Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University. The participants consisted of 200 Thai people from 5 training courses (40 Thai people per course). Data were collected using questionnaire. The statistics employed were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and ANOVA.

The research results showed that:

1. The sample of 200 Thai people. Most are female (60.00%), age between 25-34 years old (29.50%) and occupation is famer (40.00%).


2. The result-driven philosophy of sufficiency economy was found that after the 5 training courses: such as 1) project of good health by 4 things under sufficiency economy, 2) project of health care for be self-reliant by philosophy of sufficiency economy, 3) project of developing natural farming by philosophy of sufficiency economy, 4) project of leader-driven sufficiency economy for establish a new national, and 5) project of 9 step ladder theory for sufficiency, wealth, and sustainability. Thai people had the behavior as a whole at a high level (=3.13). To consider separately, it was found that the morality and the immunity had the behavior at the most (=3.38) and (= 3.36) respectively. On the other hand, the modesty, the rationality and the knowledge had the behavior at the high level (=3.07), (=3.01) and (=2.85) respectively.


3. The comparison of result-driven philosophy of sufficiency economy by sex, age and occupation of citizen showed that behaviors of the modesty, the rationality, the immunity, the morality, the knowledge and a whole were found no statistically significant difference.