Guidelines for promoting and developing the positive thinking of Undergraduate Students of Silpakorn University International College

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) to study causes that affect positive thinking of undergraduate students of Silpakorn University International College 2) to study guidelines for promoting and developing the positive thinking of Undergraduate Students of Silpakorn University International College, Semester 2, Academic Year 2019. This research was done by qualitative method. The informants were selected though purposive sampling with selection criteria, which resulted with the total of 22 informants, consisted of 3 management staffs, 5 full-time lecturers and 14 students. The data were collected from management staffs and full-time lecturers by semi-structured interview, and students by focus group in which they were divided into 2 groups.
The results indicated that the causes that affect positive thinking of undergraduate students of Silpakorn University International College were: 1) oriented child rearing, 2) life experience, 3) self-efficacy, 4) society and environment, and 5) encouragement from peers, families, teachers and friends which were derived from the opinions of management staffs; and from the opinions of full-time lecturers were consist of 1) oriented child rearing, 2) life experience, 3) self-efficacy, 4) positive media, 5) the surrounding environment, 6) Family, 7) Lecturers, 8) friends’ influences, and 9) self-understanding and the situations; and from the students’ opinions consist of 1) oriented child rearing, 2) life experience, 3) self-efficacy, 4) society and environment, 5) family, lecturers and friends, and 6) Self–understanding, others people and the situations. As for the guidelines for promoting and developing positive thinking among students from the opinions of the management, full-time lecturers and students at the Silpakorn University International College include: 1) Arrange the field trips for those related subjects to encourage students to open their minds and perspective. 2) Organise activities outside the classroom to improve student self-understanding. 3) Support students to improve their personal development both in a physical and mental way. 4) Adding positive thinking in the faculty’s course syllabus.