This research explains the interrelationship between customer satisfaction, high-involvement customer behavior, attitude and other involved variables in the real-estate investment in Northern Thailand, such as reference groups, financial assessment, legal influence, knowledge and trust of the real-estate company. The questionnaire developed was based on the concepts articulated in the literature review, being subjected to validity, factor and reliability analyses. The process involves close consultation with subject experts before testing. A quantitative survey-based method was employed, targeting at the residents in Chiang Rai, Thailand. The empirical results shown that financial decision and knowledge of reference groups are important, which influence 50.7% of the variance of the actual high-involvement attitude, which in turn can explain 44.2% of the variance of high-involvement behavior. High-involvement behavior in turn impacts directly on the level of overall customer. The results explain a nature of the investors’ high involvement behavior and attitude, which marketers and real-estate developer can be used to apply with their business model and strategies to handle with high-involvement investors.

Mental health problem is one of the growing major public health issues in the Asia Pacific region. It contributes to the high number of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), morbidity and mortality in the region. It is expected that leading mental health problems will occur in the low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) and majority of the countries which comes under this category are in the Asia Pacific region. In addition, mental health problem hamper the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly MDG 1, MDG 4 and MDG 5. The most common mental health problems in the region are depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, suicidal behaviour and substance abuse disorder. Several modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors were identified for the cause of these major mental health issues. Interventions, programmes and policies need to be designed in order to curb mental health problems at all levels.

Parents can have an impact on their children’s dietary behavior,habits, and attitudes toward diet through their own parentingpractices. Due to rapid increase in the figures of childhood obesityresearchers in public health and related sciences have recentlyturned to concentrate on the causes from the family environment,especially on parental child rearing practices and parental feedingstyles. The purpose of this article is to review research studiesfocusing on the impact of child rearing practices on childhoodobesity. 14 articles related to child rearing practices and obesity inchildren and youth, published in the Appetite journal within 10 yearswere reviewed. The content analysis technique was applied toanalyze data. The results indicated that authoritative, supportive, andreasoning practices have a positive relationship with appropriatechildhood dietary behavior and following nutritional rules. Inaddition, these practices also balanced the weight status of thechildren and youth. Authoritarian, control, and strict practices haveadverse outcomes. Overeating, inappropriate diet and obesity wereaffected by the child rearing practices. Suggestions based on thefindings propose that authoritative parenting, using authoritative,supportive and reasoning behavior, is the desirable for child rearingpractice to inculcate childhood dietary behavior and normal weightstatus of children. Keywords : child rearing practice, childhood obesity, research review

To examine a model of relationships between feelings of gratitudeand prosocial motivation in adolescents, a survey of 414 high schoolstudents and 191 undergraduate students in Thailand was conductedusing a multi-aspect questionnaire about gratitude. The questionnairemeasured the following constructs involved in hypothetical helpingsituations: (a) perception on gains for a recipient, cost of abenefactor, desirability of the favor, and obligation to give help asthe cognitive variables affecting the feelings of gratitude; (b) thefeelings of gratitude, which include feelings of appreciativeness,indebtedness, and general positivity; and (c) enhancement ofprosocial motivation on recipients as a consequence of gratitude.Results indicated that, in high school and undergraduate students,appreciativeness is the only feeling that showed positive correlationto the enhancement of prosocial motivation, whereas the perceptionon the cost of a benefactor and the gain of a recipient showedpositive correlation to the feelings of appreciativeness. In addition,both groups of students reported more degree of the feelings ofappreciativeness and enhancement of the prosocial motivation whenregarding their father and mother’s help rather than that of friends. Itis also discussed that the feelings of appreciativeness correlated witha concept of respect which probably strengthens the potential ofgratitude in promoting prosocial motivation.Keywords: gratitude, prosocial motivation, indebtedness, adolescents,Thailand

This research article presents a conceptual model to study the relationship between environment, health and economics. The main economic theories behind this study are the household production model and the utility maximization model. From the literature, health can be considered as a commodity that directly contributes to individual's utility. The constraints for this study are both the income constraint and the health production constraint. This study proposes that any household can derive utility from the children in the household being healthy, and a composition of good consumption. In addition, a child’s health is conditioned by care giving, demographic factors and environmental factors. Hence, how changes in environmental quality impact on the household production function can be measured from this model. This research article could be useful for the future studies related to analyze the linkages between health, environment and economics. Further research under the household production theory will benefit the policy maker in terms of understanding household behavior in order to improve public policies.

The objectives of this study were to analyze adolescent students’ autonomy components, to reassemble group counseling programs and to compare group counseling effectiveness in enhancing the students’ autonomy. The samples were 1,114 grade 1 - 3 Thai adolescent students selected for the autonomy component study. Subsequently, eight students as an experimental group and eight students as a control group were randomly selected from 24 Sansai Wittayakom School students with total autonomy scores at 25 th percentile and lower. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis verified that the autonomy functioning model was consistent with the empirical data and characterized into seven high loading factors (p < .05); namely, self-efficacy, self-regulation, self-reliance, self-confidence, self-responsibility, self-assertiveness and self-evaluation. Each factor covered four areas: academic performance, personal care, peer relationship and parental/guardian connectedness. A three- stage group counseling, the initial stage, the transition and working stage, and the final stage, was constructed by integrating counseling theories and techniques to enhance the students’ autonomy. Statistically significant differences (p < .05) in the total and each autonomy component of the experimental group existed before, after counseling and after the follow up period. Moreover, statistically significant differences (p < .05) in the total and each autonomy component between the experimental group and the control group existed before, after counseling and after the follow up period.

Labour migration is a vital part of modern economies and the management and integration of migrants into the labour force of great importance in fashioning its ability to adapt to and take advantage of emergent opportunities. This study applied a qualitative approach to exploring how returned migrants re-integrated into society and their informal networks with a view to improving the quality of life of the people concerned. In-depth interviews and direct observation were used in combination with the content analysis of secondary data. Findings were mainly based upon evidence from the interviews. Both skilled and unskilled returnees have regularly turned to informal networks for assistance on their own account, partly because official programs could be disorganized and lack resources. It has been found that most return migrants find themselves unemployed and have had to turn to access to their informal networks (parents, relatives, cousin and friends) to borrow money, get ideas and suggestions, locate further network connections so as to prepare to enter self-employment and personal investment in ventures such as grocery stores, beauty salons, food street vending and similar. Returnee management has been disappointing because of inadequate NGO involvement, lack of strategies to mobilize migrants' knowledge and expertise, and lack of complete and up-to-date statistics, among other constraints. This has given rise to a new generation of cyclical migrants, who move back and forth across borders attempting to integrate their internally multiple identities and senses of loyalty and belonging.