Characteristics of Thai Youth’s Social Creative Thinking Promotion in Thailand 4.0 Era
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The purpose of this research was to study the components of characteristics of Thai youth having creative thinking. The sample group in this research was students from Srinakharinwirot University Prasarnmit Demonstration School Secondary, Debsirin School, Streesmutprakarn School, and Praksawithedsuksa School that were the schools used to send their students to participate in World Creativity Festival in South Korea. The total numbers of students were 720 students that 180 students each school. The data were collected by using questionnaire. Moreover, it was examined the content validity from 3 experts and the whole confidence value was 0.92. The data were analyzed by using Confirmatory factory analysis and Pearson Product Moment Correlation.
The result found that the components of characteristics of Thai youth having creative thinking composed of 7 components. They were 1) using technology appropriately 2) not yielding to problems 3) flexible thinking 4) streamlined thinking 5) imagination 6) resolution 7) planning to solve the problem respectively. The eigenvalue of each component was more than 1, the factor loading of each variable was more than 3 and the percentage of cumulative variance of 7 components was 48.43%. In addition, the correlation coefficient of each component was very high correlation at 0.01 and in the same correlative direction.
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