Attitude towards Agricultural Occupation of Students in Matthayomsuksa 6 under the Office of Educational Area Service in Trang

Abstract

     The objectives of this study were to determine 1) Level of attitude toward agricultural occupation of the grade 12 students and 2) Factors affecting the attitude levels toward agricultural occupation of the students. The sample group was 355 grade 12 students under the Trang Provincial Office of High School Educational Service Area. which was randomly sampled questionnaire was used to collect data, and the data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics and stepwise multiple regression statistics. The results found that most of the students was female with GPA of 2.51-3.00 most of their parent was employees less than 10 years of agricultural experience, Most of their families had no farms their own and no agricultural activities in the family. Most students had not receive any agricultural information and was not any agricultural group members. They wanted the school to support their farming career at the middle level (𝛘=3.08) in farmland, farm materials, and equipment, and they need inspiration from a successful the students had a high level of positive attitude towards the agricultural occupation farmer with self-reliance (𝛘=3.98), proud on agricultural occupation (𝛘=3.96), security in agricultural occupation social security (𝛘=3.93, social security (𝛘=3.88) and economic (𝛘=3.75). Factors was that positively influenced the students’ attitude towards the agricultural occupation were occupational needs, GPA, Facebook, agricultural experience, agricultural specialist and mother’s occupation, whatever factors that was negative influenced the attitude towards the agricultural occupation, was agricultural teachers, television, newspaper, local scholars and father’s occupation