Abstract:
The objectives of the research were 1) to study human behavior after hearing a
Dhamma sermon of the people who lived in Tapornyai community, Khlung, Chanthaburi, 2) to
study their understanding the sermon, 3) to study their attitude towards the sermon and 4) to
compare their understanding and attitude among those who were deferent gender, age,
occupation, education, status and staying in the community. The sample was 317 people in the
community. The instruments were a 2 rating scale and a 5 rating scale questionnaires. The statistics
used were percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and F-test.
The results of the study were as follows : 1) After hearing the sermon, the people in
Tapornyai community behaved as the sermon said at a high level. 2) The people understood the
sermon at a high level. 3) The people had their high attitude towards the sermon. 4) They had no
different understanding the sermon while they had significantly different attitude towards the
sermon at .05 level.