Prawit Erawan
Faculty of Education, Mahasarakham University, Thailand

Abstract

The construction of life skills scale is treated under mixed methods research which is exploratory design. First,qualitative analysis  of affinity diagram technique was used to the 36 experts’ brain storming and obtaining their  consensus to group behaviour indicators based on life skills components and to generate scale items. Then all of each item is implemented to form the scale that can be used to collect data through quantitative method among 1,305 high school students around Thailand. In particular, confirmatory factor analyses comparing an empirical model and a factor  structure proposed by experts is a better fit.

Keywords:Life Skills Scale, Mixed Method Research

Full paper

European Journal of Scientific Research
ISSN 1450-216X Vol.47 No.2 (2010), pp.169-186