Development of life skill and morality with Buddhist model applied to prevention of drug abuse : a case study in secondary level schools in Nakhon Pathom province

Abstract

The objectives of the study are - first, to create a Buddhist model that would be appropriate to use in schools as a means of drug prevention second, to study the Buddhist model concerning its ability to cultivate positive attitudes that would act as deterrents against drug abuse. The methodology that was used is experimental research. The data were collected from students at Wat Majal School through a pre and post Buddhist model application questionnaire. The 230 students were divided into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group was taught the Buddhist model in order to verify the differences between the post test, of the control and experimental groups. In conclusion, after studying the Buddhist model, students in the experimental group had a better knowledge of the basic Buddhist ideas being through. The result of the mean (X) comparison from the understanding of Buddhist model questionnaire, both before and after of experimental group is using the Buddhist model. This give T-test at 22.828 and P-value equals to 0.000 which is less than Sig. 0.05, the result of mean comparison and the outcome of the understanding of Buddhist model questionnaire from using the Buddhist model in experimental group are different at the level of significance at 0.05 by statistics. We can summarize that, after studying the Buddhist model, students in the experimental group had developed certain positive attitudes vis-a-vis drug abuse. The result of the mean comparison from Attitude prevention drug abuse survey, before (pre-test) and after (post-test) is exposed to the Buddhist model, of experimental group that is tested with T-test. This gives T-test equals to -32.337 and p-value equals at 0.000 which is less than Sig. of 0.05, mean comparison from Attitude prevention drug abuse from pre-test and post-test of experimental group are different at the significance level of 0.05. Recommendations from this research were that the Buddhist model has helped to prevent teenage drug abuse through. Therefore school