| dc.description.abstract | The purposes of this research were: 1) to study personal factors, knowledge of selfemployed
in Home Economics and reasons for decision making of self-employed in Home
Economics 2 ) to study the relationship between personal factors and decision making of
self-employed in Home Economics and 3) to study the relationship between knowledge of
self-employed in Home Economics and decision making of self-employed in Home
Economics. The sample group was 196 of the 4th year undergraduate students, Faculty of
Home Economics Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon who
decided to work as self-employed person. The instrument used in the study was a
questionnaire. The percentage, mean, standard deviation and Chi-Square values were used
for statistical analysis.
The results showed that: 1) most of the sample was female (72.45%) and more
than a half of the sample studying in Department of Foods and Nutrition (52.55%), their
cumulative GPA were between 3.01-3.50 (40.31%), followed by 2.51-3.00 (31.63%). For
family information, (64.80%) of their parents were entrepreneurs or self–employed, the
average monthly income of more than 35,001 baht per family (34.18%), followed by
15,001-25,000 baht (30.61%), for the knowledge of self-employed in Home Economics in
the overall was at a high level ( = 3.78, S.D.=0.69). Types of self-employed in Home
Economics selected the most was production (50.00%), followed by distribution (26.53%),
and services (23.47%). The reasons for choosing self-employed in Home Economics were
freedom of work (37.25%), having to use knowledge , aptitude and proficiency in work
(23.47%), and having a good opportunity to being successful in work (12.25%), the
expectation to have an average monthly income was between 25,001-35,000 baht
(56.63%). 2) the relationship between personal factors and the decision making of selfemployed
in Home Economics, including gender, field of study, cumulative (GPA), parents’
occupation, the average monthly of family income and work experience during study found
that there was statistical significance at the level of .05, except the family self-employed.
and 3) the relationship between knowledge of self-employed in Home Economics and the
decision making of self-employed in Home Economics found that there was statistical
significance at the level of .05 | en_US |
