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Kanittha� Tantaphan. 1998.� Psychosocial and Buddhist Characteristics� as Correlates of Professional-role Action of Nurses.� Dissertation,� M.S (Behavioral Science)� Behavioral Science� Research� Institute. ������������������� The� three main objectives of this research� were:� Firstly, to� define the effective� factors� which could predict� Professional-role action. Secondly� to investigate� the Professinal-role� action between the nurses� of� the differences of Psycho-social characteristics and Buddhist characteristics. ��������������� The Professional and Techinical nurses who worked in medical or surgical� ward in the hospital� were the samples in this study.� The hopitals� were chooden under the following� conditions : Firstly,� they� were� Minster of Public Health� hospitals,� and secondly: they located within 160� kilometers around Bangkok� Metropolitan. The� independent variables were divided into two groups: (1) Psycho-social characteristic consisted of 4 factors (i.e. Professional socialization with health team, Professional socialization with nursing team, Role ambiguity, and Professional-role identity). (2)� Buddhist charactenistic� consisted of 3 factors(i.e. Buddhist belief, Buddhist pratice and Ittibaht 4. (3) The Professional-role action served as dependent variable that was divided into� 5� aspects, Profession-role action overall, Preventive action, Encourage action, Care action and Rehabilitation action. Care action and Rehabilitation� action. ���������������� Descriptive� statistics, Two-way Analysis of� Variance� and Multiple Regression Analysis were used to analyze the whole group data and 5 background� characteristic� groups data. ������������� The reseach finding were� as� follows: ����������������� 1.� Concerning� the� different aspects of Professional-role� action ��������������� 1.1� For Professional-role action, it was found that Professional-role identity and Professional sociatization� with health� tearn� could predict 22-08 %� of� variance in Professional-role action.� The most� important predictor� for� 4� groups was� Profession-role identity ��������������� 1.2� For Preventive action and Encourage action, the result showed that Professional socialization with nursing team and Ittibaht� 4� could pedict� 13.88� % of variance in Preventive action and 13.21 %� of variance in Encourage action. Professional socialiation or Ittibaht� 4� was the most important predictor for 2 groups. ���������������� 1.3� For Care action and Rehavilitation action:� Professional-role identity, Professional socialization with nursing team, and Professional socializational with health teamcould predict� 15.71%� of variance in Care action and 16.04% of variance in Rehavilitation action.� It was also found that Profesional-role identity or Ittibaht� 4� was the most important predictor ��������������� 2.� Professional-role actions were in the high level for all groups. When comparing different� aspect ofProfessional-role action, Care action was the highest score and Rehabilitation� action was the loweat one in all groups ��������������� 3.� For Professional nurses, there were interaction aspects of Professional socialization with health team and Role ambiguity on Care action, the interaction aspects of Role ambiguity� and Ittibaht 4 on Rehavilitation action, and the interaction aspects of Professional-role identity and Ittibah 4 on Preventive action. For Technical nurses, there were the interaction aspects of Role ambiguity and Buddhist practice on Profession-role action. It was also found that the interactions betwwn Rehavilitation action and Ittibaht 4 affect Preventive action, Care action and Rehaviltation action for nurses who having work experience between� 2-5� years. ��������������� 4.� For Psycho-social Characteristics, Professional socialization with health team andProfessional-role identity� affect all Professional-role actions in both whole group and 2 background characteristic groups. ��������������� 5.� For Buddhist characteristics, the result clearly showed that Ittibaht 4 was the most� powerful predictor of Professional-role action in both whole group and 3 background characteristic groups. � | SWU |���� | BSRI |������������������ � � � � � �