อิทธิพลของความรักความเข้าใจในครอบครัวต่อคุณธรรมจริยธรรมของเด็กและเยาวชนไทย / มนทกานติ์ รอดคล้าย = The influence of family's love and understanding on morality and ethics of Thai children and youth / Monthakant Rodklai
The objective of the study was to explore the influence of love and understanding within families on morality and ethics of Thai children and youth. The study focused on love and understanding situations in each family and other related factors, including parents' approaches and methods in taking care of their children. The methodology of the study is mixed method, the combination between quantitative and qualitative approaches. The quantitative research was based on the secondary data obtained from Thai Children's and Youth's Wellbeing Investigation Project. According to Qualifications Framework, which was supported by College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University. The data was analyzed using Multiple regression method. As for the qualitative part, in-depth interviews were conducted in order to obtain information regarding parents' approaches and aspects on raising their children in relation with morality and ethics of the children and youth. The finding of this research is that family love and understanding influence on morality and ethics of children and youth positively. Thus, if children and youth receive adequate love and understanding from family, they will acquire positive personal morality and ethics too. However, there were also children's other demographic characteristics playing a role, including region, gender, age, and level of education. While there were only certain factors from household and non factors from parents' demographic characteristics that impact on maorality and ethics of the children and youth. It was also found from the qualitative research that parents raised up their children with intensive care, ready to provide love and understanding for them.
