A Study Students’ Lifestyles at King Mongkut'’s University of Technology Thonburi.

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study students lifestyles at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi by investigating the relationships between lifestyle and selected student factors. The results of this study will be used to improve academic activities and services in line with the suitable nature and demand of student major fields.

In this study, students lifestyles were categorized into 7 subcultures, namely, academic,non-conformist, collegiate, vocational, associated, isolation and constructional.

The factors investigated to see their relationship with lifestyles were gender, GPA, level of study, field of study, occupations of parents, and size of peer groups.

The subjects in the research were 1,300 students from 4 faculties. Data were collected using questionnaires.

The lifestyles identified as most common among the subjects are non-conformist and vocational. All factors investigated were found to have significant relationships with lifestyles. For gender, females more frequently had a collegiate subculture whereas male more frequently had an isolation subculture. For GPA, students with different GPA, followed different lifestyles especially for non-conformist, academic and vocational subculture. (P<0.05) Similar results were found for level of study. Regarding fields of study. All of the different major fields of study investigated had different lifestyles. (P< 0.01) For occupation of parents, students with different occupation of parents, followed different lifestyles especially for non-conformist and associated subculture, and similar different were also found for size of peer group. (P<0.05)