Antecedents of Respectful Mind and Citizenship of Undergraduate Students

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to investigate antecedents of undergraduate students’ respectful mind and citizenship based on the interactionism approach and the psychological theory of moral as a conceptual framework. The 441 first year undergraduate students in academic year 2014 from Rajabhat University in Northeast, were sampled by using multi-stage sampling technique. There were 153 male students and 288 female students. The independent variables in this research were 1) psychological traits consisted of 3 variables : moral reasoning, future orientation and self control and belief in internal locus of control of reinforcement 2) situation variables included teacher’s respect behavior modeling. The dependent variables were respectful mind and citizenship. Moreover, biosocial background variables of the students including gender, faculty, and location of university were also measured. The six important variables assessed in this research were in the form of six scale rating. The reliability of each questionnaire ranged from .805 to .849. Data were analyzed by percentage, mean and standard deviation. Multiple Regression Analysis was employed for hypothesis testing. The results were 1) the main predictor variables; the future orientation and self control, moral reasoning, 48.90 percentages.