Abstract
The purposes of this study were to develop a model to measure the belief in Buddhism of junior high school students at Chiang Rai Buddhist Scripture School, and to determine construct validity of the model for measuring the belief in Buddhism by using Multitrait-Multimethod analysis. The samples were 590 junior high school students at Buddhist Scripture School who selected using the multi-stage random sampling. Three-Choice Situational Buddhist Belief Test (Sbbd) and Five-Scale Buddhist Belief Test (Rbbd) were used for data collection. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, CFA, and MTMM. The findings showed that 1) the results of the second order confirmatory factor analysis for measuring the belief in Buddhism were correlated with the empirical data at a good level (Sbbd:/df = 1.141, p-value = 0.146 and Rbbd: /df = 1.071, p-value = 0.287), and 2) multitrait-multimethod analysis had construct validity at a good level ( = 33.664, df = 26, p-value = 0.144, CFI = 0.999, TLI= 0.998, RMSEA = 0.022, SRMR = 0.032,/df = 1.294). Both types of tests used for measuring the belief in Buddhism had convergent validity at a high level, discriminative validity at a moderate level, and reliability at a high level. Key words: Belief in Buddhism, construct validity, second order confirmatory factor analysis, multitrait-multimethod analysis.
Highlights
The Belief in Buddhism has been a factor significantly influencing the peace of the society
The key findings are summarized as follows: 1. The development of a model to measure the belief in Buddhism of junior high school students at Buddhist Scripture School
When considering the consistency of the measurement model with empirical data, and from the statistics used to determine the validity of the model, the findings showed that the measurement results on the belief in Buddhism measured by 60 items of situational Buddhist belief test had Chi–Square ( 2), 128.881; degree of freedom,113; and p-value, 0.146
Summary
The Belief in Buddhism has been a factor significantly influencing the peace of the society. Developed in recent years, Buddhism still has an influence on the peace of the society (Glock, 1973). Buddhism teaches people to love peace by developing their mental strength, viewing the world based on cause and effect, treating others with kindness, and being a mental refuge in order to face sufferings in life with courage, and these teachings lead to a peaceful life. Buddhism has laid concept foundation, good ideology, and control of people to behave according to the norms of society in order to build the unity to be able to live together in peace (Dowling, 2006; Hirota, 2004). The belief in Buddhism is, in a factor that has an effect on peace in the society (Bronkhorst, 2000)
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