Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to study factors effecting industry of Pratom Six students in Bangkok, subjects were 212 children school in Bangkok, whose industry scores did not differ more than 18 points from their industry scores as perceived by their teachers. Research instruments were Student-responded-industry questionnaire, teacher-perceived-industry questionnaire and biographical data and child-rearing questionnaire. Multiple regression was employed in data analysis. The results of this study are as follows: 1. Academic achievement ( r = .8128), student's hope to futher education (r = .5384), democratic rearing scores (r = .4895), father's educations (r = .3783), parent's hope for student to futher education (r = .3085), mother's educations (r = .3188), Chinese-Thai students (r = .1791), sex (r = .1770) correlate positively with industry and laissez-faire rearing scores (r = -.3577), authoritative rearing score (r = -.2489), age (r = -.1065) and Thai students (r = -.1542) correlate negatively with industry. 2. Three selected factors which could be used as predictors of industry (R2 = .6871) were ranked in there power of prediction as follows: Academic achievement (v03) (B = .691) democratic rearing scores (v09) (B = .143) and student's hope to futher (v12) (B = .103). The regression equation in standard score was indusz = .691*V03z + .103*V12z.