| Summary: | A studyof social quality and citizenship of Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University students sought to 1) study citizenship of students from Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University, 2) study social quality factors related to citizenship of Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University students and 3) propose citizenship development guidelines of Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University students using quantitative research methods. A questionnaire was used as a tool for data collection. The results showed that most of the samples were female (62.5%). Most of them were aged 19-20 years (43.7%). Most of them were students of the faculty is Humanities and Social Sciences. (42.0%), with first-year students (38.0%) and with income between 6,001-10,000 baht (52.5 %). It was found that the overall level of citizenship of the students was ( =2.85, S.D.=0.857). The social quality factors related to student citizenship were as follows: 1) social solidarity variables and students’ citizenship level variables were a statistically significant relationship at 0.05 level, 2) the social capital conversion variable and the student citizenship level variable were statistically significant at the 0.05 leveland 3) the networking level variableof social factors and the degree of citizenship of the students were statistically significantly related at the 0.05 level. Citizenship development approach used the following factors of social quality .-1) principles of building good relationships between groups of students, 2) principles of eliminating conflicts of interests, 3) principles of ideology and values of diligence, patience, cooperation, honesty and self-reliance, 4) continuing education and citizenship training to encourage students to have knowledge and ideas and help students to be more self-confident to behave as a good citizens, and 5) teamwork principles that can be used to seek cooperation in developing the student society to realize citizenship.
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