The Analysis of Psychologist Skills in the 21st Century that Discriminate between Employment Status in Psychology-Related Field and Non-Psychology Field of Psychology Graduates, Valaya Anlongkorn Rajabhat University
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Objective: The purposes of this research were to study the psychologist skills in the 21st century that discriminated between employment status in psychology-related field and non-psychology field of psychology graduates and to create predictive equation of the employment status of the graduates.
Materials and Methods: The study was the cross-sectional survey by conducting online questionnaires. Participants were 208 students graduated with psychology bachelor’s degree in 2012-2016, Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University under the Royal Patronage. The data was analyzed by Logistic regression analysis.
Results: The study found that psychologist skills in the 21st century that significantly discriminated between the graduates’ employment status in psychology-related field and non-psychology field were information media and technology skills, life and career skills and learning and innovation skills respectively (p =.05). The prediction equation derived from the current study was log (Odds) = .816 + 1.349 (information media and technology skills) + .910 (life and career skills) +.849 (learning and innovation skills). Such a formula could be able to effectively predict 70.20 percent of an overall result, 88.88 and 36.50 percent of the employment in psychology-related field and in nonpsychology field respectively.
Conclusion: information media and technology skills, life and career skills and learning and innovation skills were psychologist skills in the 21st century and the prediction equation could be able to effectively predict 70.20 percent of an overall result.
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เรื่องที่ลงตีพิมพ์ในวารสารจิตวิทยาคลินิกแล้วถือเป็นลิขสิทธิ์การเผยแพร่โดยวารสารจิตวิทยาคลินิกแต่เพียงผู้เดียว การตีพิมพ์หรือเผยแพร่ซ้ำในที่อื่นต้องได้รับอนุญาตจากกองบรรณาธิการวารสารฯ
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