Lifestyles and key factors affecting the adaptation of foreign muslim students in Thailand
| dc.contributor.advisor | Patchanee Cheyjunya | th |
| dc.contributor.author | Yaowanuch Sawhasun | th |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-23T08:38:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-23T08:38:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | th |
| dc.date.issuedBE | 2563 | th |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D. (Communication Arts and Innovation))--National Institute of Development Administration, 2020 | th |
| dc.description.abstract | The research is aimed 1) to study the lifestyles of foreign Muslim students in Thailand 2) to explore foreign Muslim students’ living and intercultural communication problems in Thailand, and 3) to investigate the differences and relationship between the related factors and the level of foreign Muslim students’ adaptability in Thailand. The study is multi-methodology research, conducted by both quantitative and qualitative research. Survey questionnaires were collected from 286 foreign Muslim students. For qualitative research, an in-depth interview with foreign Muslim students, Thai friends, an instructor, and international students' advisor, a total of twelve samples, combined with the non-participant observation, and analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. Besides, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used and analyzed by t-test and ANOVA, including multiple regression analysis for predicting factors related to the level of foreign Muslim students’ adaptability in Thailand at the .05 statistical significance level. From the study, it was found that 1) Foreign Muslim students had sport and outdoor orientation lifestyle the most, followed by a cultural-orientation lifestyle. 2) Foreign Muslim students had low Thai language proficiency in every skill; thus, this caused their general living in Thailand. They specified the problem in the cognitive domain or the Thai language’s understanding the most as they could not communicate with local people outside the universities, not understand Thai signs, etc. Besides, insufficient Halal food and the inconvenience of finding it, including no provided places in the universities for their religious practices, were other main problems. No problem was found in the affective domain due to their motivation to study in Thailand, their positive attitude towards Thailand, Thai people, and Thai educational systems, including the low cost of living. They found no behavioral problems either. However, they expected to get free courses in the Thai language, but most universities did not arrange for them and discouraged them from learning Thai. 3) From the statistical analysis, foreign Muslim students' lifestyle patterns were found to positively correlate with the level of their adaptability, especially the cultural-orientation lifestyle. Foreign Muslim students had the overall adaptability at a high level. Personal factors and their predispositions, including their Thai language skills, were positively correlated at the .05 statistical significance level. From the multiple regression analysis of seven variables: communication, media exposure, religious influence, host culture environment, intercultural communication competence, lifestyle patterns, and Thai language skills, are found to predict the level of foreign Muslim students' adaptability 37%. Host culture environment, lifestyle patterns, and intercultural communication competence are found to be the most predictive factors. Intercultural communication competence in three domains: cognitive, affective, and behavioral, can predict the level of adaptability 20%, and competence in the affective domain is the most predictive factor. All seven patterns of lifestyle: cultural, social, entertainment, home and family, and sport and outdoor orientation, can predict the level of adaptability 18%and the cultural-orientation lifestyle is the most predictive factor. | th |
| dc.format.extent | 192 leaves | th |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | th |
| dc.identifier.other | b212218 | th |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.nida.ac.th/handle/662723737/6838 | th |
| dc.language.iso | eng | th |
| dc.publisher | National Institute of Development Administration | th |
| dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | th |
| dc.subject.other | Life Style | th |
| dc.subject.other | Muslims -- Thailand | th |
| dc.title | Lifestyles and key factors affecting the adaptation of foreign muslim students in Thailand | th |
| dc.type | text::thesis::doctoral thesis | th |
| mods.genre | Dissertation | th |
| mods.physicalLocation | National Institute of Development Administration. Library and Information Center | th |
| thesis.degree.department | Graduate School of Communication Arts and Management Innovation | th |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Communication Arts and Innovation | th |
| thesis.degree.grantor | National Institute of Development Administration | th |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | th |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | th |