其他摘要：The objectives of this research are as follows: (1) to study social responsibility among Prathomsuksa VI students; (2) to compare social responsibility for Prathomsuksa VI students before and after participation in group counseling; and (3) to compare social responsibility between the experimental and control groups, before and after participation in group counseling. The subject for this study consisted of two groups: (1) the first group consisted of 211 Prathomsuksa VI students; (2) the second group consisted of students from the first group and in terms of social responsibilities, scored lower than the 25th percentile, established by purposive sampling and voluntary participation in group counseling. Each group consisted eight students in the experimental and the control group. The research instruments were a social responsibility questionnaire with a reliability of .84 and the program enhancement of social responsibility through group counseling. The data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation and a t-test. The research results were as follows: (1) the social responsibility for Prathomsuksa VI students as a whole was at a high level; (2) the social responsibility of the experimental group after participating in group counseling was and higher than before the experiment at a significantly increased at a level of .05; and (3) the social responsibility of the experimental group after participating in group counseling was significantly higher than the control group at a level of .05.
