The Effects of Adventure Education Activities on the Self-Concept and Interpersonal Relationship of Junior High School Students

• Main Authors: Yu Tzu-Ying, 余紫瑛
• Other Authors: 李義男
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2000
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80086600206449476953

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 公民訓育研究所 === 88 === The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the effects of Adventure Education activities upon the self-concept and interpersonal relationship of the junior high school students. The pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design with treatment and comparison groups was utilized. The subjects for the study were drawn from the junior high school in ILan county and divided into three groups: the adventure group(the experimental group, 29 subjects) , the scouting group( 31 subjects) , and the control group (35 subjects) . Both of the adventure group and the scouting group attended voluntarily a three-day outdoor camping program in ILan county at the same time. The adventure group received the Adventure Education activities, and the scouting group received the Scout skill-testing activities. Whereas the control group, selected randomly from junior high school in ILan county, received no treatment at all. The study employed ‘Tennessee Self-Concept Scale’ and ‘Interper-sonal Relationship Inventory’ to conduct pretest, posttest, and long-term measures. And hypotheses were tested by one-way analysis of covariance and paired t test(within-subjects design t test). The results of this study were summarized as followed: 1.The Adventure Education activities showed no significant instant and long-term effects on the students’ 「total self-concept」. 2.The Adventure Education activities showed significant positive instant effect on the students’ 「physical self-concept」, and had no significant long-term effect on it. 3.The Adventure Education activities showed no significant instant effect on the students’ 「interpersonal relationship」, but had significant positive long-term effect on it. 4.There were no significant instant and long-term effects on the students’ 「total self-concept」 between the Adventure Education activities and the Scouting activities. 5.The instant effect of the Adventure Education activities on the students’ 「physical self-concept」 was significant higher than that of the Scouting activities, and the long-term effect between these two activities was no significantly different on it . 6.There were no significant instant and long-term effects on the students’ 「interpersonal relationship 」 between the Adventure Education activities and the Scouting activities. As the conclusions mentioned above, some of the suggestions for the practicing of the Adventure Education activities and the future researches were discussed.