Abstract:
This study has two objectives. The first is to study the quality of life of noncommissioned officers of the2nd Engineer Battalion, Kings Guard. The second is to compare the quality of life of non-commissioned officers based on their unique personal factors, work, family and economic factors. This study was survey research. The sample size of the survey was 187 non-commissioned officers of the2 nd Engineer Battalion, Kings Guard. The tool used in collecting information for the study was a questionnaire. The statistical tools employed for the study to analyze collected data include frequency, percentage, average, Standard Deviation, t-test, One-way ANOVA, Welch and Brown-Forsythe. The results of the study demonstrated that the quality of life of non-commissioned officers of the 2nd Engineer Battalion, Kings Guard was at a medium level. The quality of life for each factor can be ordered from highest to lowest as follows: psychological domain, social relationships, physical domain, and environmental. Based on the results from the comparison, there were no statistically significant differences in the level of quality of life of non-commissioned officers regarding the differences in age, education background, serving time in the Battalion, marital status, number of children, residence, salary, extra occupations and participating in professional development projects. Noncommissioned officers with different welfare benefits, however, had a different quality of life with the level of statistical significance set at .05. Non-commissioned officers with sufficient welfare benefits had a better quality of life than those with insufficient welfare benefits.