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. 

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