THE EFFECTIVENESS USING BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY COUNSELING GROUPS PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS’ LOW ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN MAHACHULALONGKORNRAJAVIDYALAYA UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This research was of the purpose and objectives to study an integrative principle of Buddhist counseling and Western one, to study an effectiveness using Buddhist psychology counseling groups for students low academic achievement in Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University. The consequence of research was found in two categories, such as 1. After participation in Buddhist psychology counseling programme caused students in an experimented group and in a controlled group of developing the way of wisdom thinking and confronting the problem to be different by analyzing a difference of average marks. The level of developing the way of wisdom thinking and confronting the problem of students in the experimented group after participation in the activities, as found, to be higher than students in a controlled group with an important implication accorded with statistical significance at the  0.01. level  and    2.After participation in Buddhist psychology counseling made students in the experimented group have the level of developing the way of wisdom thinking and confronting different problems in a stage of experiment by analyzing difference of average marks at the level of developing the way of wisdom thinking and facing the problem in the stage before and after participation in activities of experimented group. It was found that students in the experimented group had average marks at the level of developing the way of wisdom thinking and confronting the problem after more participation in activities with an important implication accorded with statistical significance at the  0.01. level