Abstract:
The purposes of the research was to study problems of adjustment and mental health of quota students at Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkhen campus. The subjects were 204 quota students classified by sex, classes, and majors. The Mooney Problem Check List and the Symptom Check List were used to measure the adjustment and mental health problems. All questionnaires were returned and then were analyzed in terms of percentages, means, and standard diviations. One-way analysis of variance were used to determine if there were any significant differences,and,also, the follow-up test, Newman Keuls, was employed. The results revealed that : 1. Most of students had problems at the low level on the following problems : the adjustment to college work, the social and recreational activities, the future : vocational and educational problems and the curriculum and teaching procedure. 2. The problems of mental health of quota students in most of items were at the moderate level. They were obsessive-compulsive, somatization, interpersonal-sensitivity, depression, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid-ideation and psychoticism. 3. There were statistically significant differences at the .05 level between male and female students on : 1) the adjustment problem about the future : vocational and educational, and 2) the mental health problems about interpersonal sensitivity and phobic anxiety. 4. There was no statistically significant difference at the .05 level among students studied in different classes on the adjustment and mental health problems. 5. There was statistically significant difference at the .05 level among students studied in different majors on the adjustment problem about finances, living condition, and employment. But there was no statistically significant different at the .05 level among students studied in different majors on mental health problems.