Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to compare the concepts of democracy among Mathayom Suksa Three Students in public and private schools, male and female students and to find the correlation of the concepts of democracy among Mathayom Suksa Three Students and the following factors: sex, parents educational background, parents career, and parents salary. Procedures The writer constructed a questionnaire and a test on the concepts of democracy. The test had a realibility of .88. The samples were 200 boys and 200 girls in Mathayom Suksa Three Students in Bangkok Metropolis, and were randomly selected from 3 public schools and 3 private schools. Then the questionnaire and test results were treated by the statistical methods of Z-test, chi-square, point biserial coefficient of correlation, coefficient of contingency and the chi-square test of independence in contingency tables. Conclusions 1. The concepts of democracy of Mathayom Suksa Three Students in public and private schools were significantly different at the .01 level. 2. The concepts of democrary of Mathayom Suksa Three Students between boys and girls were significantly different at the .01 level. 3. Thirty-three items of the test were answered right or wrong depended on the type of schools. 4. Fifteen items of the test were answered right or wrong depended on sex of the students. 5. The concepts of democracy of Mathayom Suksa Three Students correlated with sex of the students significantly at the .01 level. 6. The concepts of democrary of Mathayom Suksa Three Students correlated with fathers educational background significantly at the .01 level. 7. The concepts of democracy of Mathayom Suksa Three Students did no correlate with mothers educational background significantly at the .01 level. 8. The concepts of democracy of Mathayom Suksa Three students did not correlate with parents salary significantly at the .01 level. 9. The concepts of democracy of Mathayom Suksa Three Students did not correlate with fathers career significantly at the .01 level 10. The concepts of democracy of Mathayom Suksa Three Students correlated with mothers career significantly at the .01 level.