It is apparent that male and female students mainly had the same sources of
income. The majority of their income was from their parents. About 82 per
cent of the Thai students were dependent upon money from their parents.
Only a small number of students (13.5 per cent of males and 21.6 per cent
of females) were engaged in a job to earn income and to help ease the burden
of their parents. The result is in accordance with Leiser and Ganin
(1996, as cited in Otto, 2012), who classify parents into two groups by
means of socialisation in the economic domain. First, there are parents who
try to shield their children from economic worries and responsibilities.
Children in this group are not concerned about working to gain income.
Their parents are in charge of all of expenses in the household.