An Analysis of Causal Relation Structure of Factors Effected to Moral Courage of Adolescents

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Phrakrudhamadhorn Anon Kantaviro
Phrakrubhavanasamvaorkit
Phramaha Thavorn Thavaro

Abstract

This research had two objectives namely 1) to develop causal model of moral courage in adolescents 2) to examine concordance of developed causal model of model of moral courage in adolescents with empirical data.  The sample of this research is 984 adolescents in Within Bangkok and the five surrounding provinces: Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Samut Prakan, Nakhon Pathom, and Samut Songkhram. selected by simple random sampling method. The variables are Moral courage, Parenting, Self-esteem, and social competence. Questionnaire is tool for collecting data, and statistics for data analysis are descriptive statistics, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient, and Structural equation modeling with Lisrel.


Result of the study found that: 1) A causal model of moral courage in adolescents have got direct effect by self-esteem, beliefs in Karma principle, and social competence, as well as indirect effect by parenting through self-esteem and social competence. 2) A causal model of moral courage in adolescents has concordance with empirical data with chi-square = 65.87 df = 49 p-value = .054 GFI=.977. The variables in model explained 41.15% variance of moral courage in adolescents.

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Kantaviro, P. A. ., Phrakrubhavanasamvaorkit, & Thavaro, P. T. . (2026). An Analysis of Causal Relation Structure of Factors Effected to Moral Courage of Adolescents. Journal of Buddhist Psychology, 11(1), 23–33. retrieved from https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jbp/article/view/298369
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