Abstract:
The objectives of this dissertation encompassed 1) to investigate personal financial planning; 2) to analyze the Buddhist communications that support personal financial planning; and 3) to propose a Buddhist communication innovation for promoting personal financial planning. This study was a qualitative research, emphasizing the documentary research to collect data from the Tipitaka, textbooks, books, research, and other related documents. A content analysis was used to present descriptive data analysis.
The results of the study were found as follows:
1. Personal financial planning concerning the four basics of financial literacy consisted of earning, saving, spending, and investing, with the following five steps of planning including 1) assessing financial status; 2) setting financial goals; 3) determining options and evaluating them; 4) creating and following a personal financial plan; 5) monitoring, evaluating, and improving the personal financial plan continuously, and the study revealed that personal financial planning would have been successful because of the three important qualities of a person encompassing 1) financial responsibility; 2) financial literacy; and 3) financial discipline.
2. The Buddhadhamma promoting the personal financial planning encompassed the four sensual pleasures Kāmabhoga-Sukha (setting financial goals), the six gates of destruction (Apāyamukha) (preventing lack of income), and the four temporal objective or present benefit (Diṭṭhadhammikattha-Samvattanika-Dhamma) (encouraging the quest of income), the four principles for dividing wealth (Bhoga-Vibhāga) (allocation of money earned), the five benefits to be derived from wealth (Bhogādiya-Dhamma) (spending), and the three qualities of a successful shopkeeper or business man (Pāpaṇika-Dhamma) (investment); the Buddhadhamma, in addition to promote financial discipline by cultivating mindfulness, developing wisdom and considering the subject of recollection (Abhinhapaccavekkhaṇa); for encouraging personal financial planning through the communication of Buddhadhamma, it aimed to give receiver education between interpersonal and organizational communication in a combination form of one-way and two-way communication;and its forms were conveyed by the manner of descriptive and doctrinal phrases through messengers and content, which played a key role in communication as the Buddha being a sender, while his teachings as the content focusing on financial goal setting, income earning, asset allocation, spending, investment, and financial discipline, by conversing verbally and non-verbally with numerous group receivers, including disciples, brahmins, wealthy people, and youngsters.
3. The Buddhist communication innovation promoting personal financial planning (knowledge from research) is the "SROMC Model for Communication to Promote Personal Financial Planning" (Sender's Qualification, Receiver's Characteristics, Objective of Communication, Message, Chanel), showing that the communicator delivered Buddhist innovation in personal financial planning attaching the criteria of the four principles for dividing wealth (Bhoga-Vibhāga) as the core idea, withsuch knowledge to be communicated to the targeted audience according to the objectives; anda two-way interactive communication method through modern digital media was more convenient, fast and supported the sender in the form of images, sound, and text at the same time, indicating that in every step of communication, the communicator had to focus on the highest benefit for the receiver.