Abstract:
Academic achievement refers to the capacity of students in studying and is an important index that can be used to predict the beginning salary and salary growth rate. From a systematic review, we found that factors concerning the academic achievements of students could be classified as demographic, psychological, admission criteria, learning-related daily habits, and learning environment. This review showed that academic achievement was most likely affected by psychological factors. In addition, negative psychological factors impeded academic achievement while positive psychological factors improved academic achievement. A cross-sectional survey was also conducted on the relationship between predicting variables, some of which were retrieved from the systematic review, academic achievement, and job satisfaction in applied Thai traditional medicine students. Most of the participants were female (n = 297, 78.60%), and currently working (93.65%). The mean age was 27.86±3.44 years. The grade point average (GPAX) of the student was 3.18±0.35. We found that social support, attitude, self-efficacy, GPAX, and graduate year were significant predictors of job satisfaction. When social support, attitude, self-efficacy, and graduate year changed for one unit, job satisfaction increased by 0.381, 0.201, 0.121, and 0.098 units, respectively, assuming that the values of the constant other parameters were obtained. When GPAX changed for one unit, job satisfaction decreased by 0.117, assuming that the values of the constant other parameters were obtained. This study supported that improved job satisfaction in applied Thai traditional medicine was correlated with attitude, graduate year, self-efficacy, and social support. This finding can be useful for human resource management and can guide what colleges can do to promote the job satisfaction of their students.