Abstract:
The purposes of the study were to analyze the morality content in the newspapers, and to survey students opinions concerning the morality content in the newspaper. There were two groups of sample using in the study. The purposive-sampling technique was utilized to obtain the first group of samples which was 28 copies from the 4 most popular newspapers in Bangkok Metropolis, distributed during January 24 to February 20, 1987. Three hundred and forty Mathayom Suksa Three students in Bangkok Metropolis, who were obtained by the multiple-stage sampling technique, were the second group of samples participated in the study. The morality content analysis form for analyzing the morality content in the newspapers, and a questionnaire to survey students opinions were employed to collect data. The data were analyzed by means of percentage and chi-square. The results of the study revealed that : 1. The newspaper that mostly presented morality content in the positive aspect was the Daily News (25.45%), and also, the Daily News (27.24%) was the one that mostly presented morality content in the negative aspect. 2. In the home news, there was the highest frequency in presenting both positive or negative aspects of the morality content. The morality content concerning an attachment to religious values and moral either positive or negative aspects were most present 2.1 Positive morality content concerning unity as well as negative morality concerning attachment to religious values and moral were mostly presented in the home and foreign news columns. 2.2 Positive morality content concerning attachment to religions values and moral as well as negative morality concerning discipline were mostly presented in the editorial column. 2.3 Positive and negative morality content concerning attachment to religions values and moral were mostly presented in the various articles, social news, fiction and comic strips columns. 2.4 Positive morality content concerning patriotism as well as negative morality content concerning rationality and wisdom were mostly presented in the children and youth column. 3. The Mathayom Suksa Three students opinions, concerning the morality content in the newspapers, were consonant with the results of the analysis of morality content in the newspapers. They found that the morality content in the newspaper either in the positive or negative aspects, could be able to apply to their daily lives. 4. There was no relationship between students factors in their parents education, marriage status, income, occupations and the effect of students opinion or behavior changes in reading newspapers. 5. There was a relationship between students factors in sexs and message receiving behaviors, and the effect of students opinion or behavior changes in reading newspapers.