Higher Education Studies in the Restive Areas of Thailand’s Southern Insurgency: A Comparison of Resilience among Students at the Pattani Campus and a Nearby Province

Job-Seeking Anxiety Resilience and Family Influence on Career Decision-Making among Senior Undergraduate Students in Southern Thailand during the COVID -19 Pandemic

“…Previous studies revealed that the score of Resilience Quotient was strongly, inversely related to scores of anxiety 18 using emotional stability, will power and coping skills. 7 Self-perceptions in the meaning of understanding their personal, job, and experiences and abilities in jobseeking positively correlated with anxiety states. In other words, anxious participants were more conservative in their estimations of their action capabilities, which was concordant in a previous study.…”

“…Resilience quotient (RQ) is defined as: the individual process of adapting using emotional stability, will power and coping skills to recover from trauma, tragedy, threats and stressful circumstances. 7 Although, the issue of job-seeking has become the most important concern and cause for anxiety for university students, few studies in Thailand about jobseeking anxiety related resilience quotient and family influence on career decision-making have been published; especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the purposes of this research were to examine job-seeking anxiety and to determine the associations between jobseeking anxiety, resilience quotient and family influence on career decision-making among senior, undergraduate students, in Prince of Songkla University, during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to provide mental health promotion and prevention in the future.…”