Development Indicators of Parenting Role in Choosing Career for Thai Students.

Abstract

            This study aimed to study the parenting role in choosing career for Thai Students. The sample was a group of parents of 1,800 secondary 4 students from the region in Thailand. Thesample using multi-stage sampling. The research tools were parenting role in choosing career for Thai student’s test. The statistical methods used to analyze the research data were mean, standard deviation, andconfirm factor analysis. The result found that parenting role in choosing career for Thai student’s testconsisted of 3 factors; knowledge factor, attitude factor and skills factor, with a total of 30 questions. The instrument used to collect data was a questionnaire which discriminate value between .372 – .823 and reliability ranging was .814. The developed model can explain parenting's role in choosing a career for Thai students and associated with empirical data; c²= 18.23, df= 5, p-value = .00268; Relative χ² = 3.64, RMSEA = .038, GFI = 1.00, AGFI = .98, RMR = .010, SRMR= .015, NFI = 1.00, IFI= .99, CFI = 1.00 and CN = 1487.21.