Correlates of Leisure Place Selection among Adolescents in Middle Taiwan ─ An Example of National Taichung Agricultural Vocational High School

• Main Authors: Duen-Pei Pao, 鮑敦珮
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64409908659480165140

碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 休閒事業管理系碩士班 === 90 === Abstract Two days off give more leisure time for students to have leisure activities. Many papers reported that the enforcement of two days off induced teenagers' inappropriate behaviors in their leisure activities, such as many teenagers commit crimes at leisure places. We can know that a healthy teenager is the main power for our society nowadays. Therefore, to realize teenagers' leisure activities and places are very important. 　　There were three objectives for this research: 1. To understand what kinds of leisure activities teenagers mostly like to go recently. 2. To realize how teenagers select their leisure places. 3. To analyze the difference between the leisure places selected for Day and Night school students at National Agriculture Vocational High School. 　　Three hundred eighty two questionnaires were collected from the students. The valid response rate of those questionnaires was 99.48%. The sampling time was from April eighteenth to 2002. 　　The results of this study were as followings: Internet coffee shops, basketball ground, bookstores were the most three popular places for the students. Travelling outbound, playing at a PUB or a KTV were the most three wanted activities for the samples. The most three popular leisure activities were playing computer Internet, ball games and singing. The obstructive leisure factors to influence the samples to go to leisure places were not enough money, parents' attitudes, and limits of time. The characteristics of the most popular activities were entertaining, challenged, and exercised. In leisure time, selection leisure places and participation companion were the differences for Day and Night school students for leisure places selected. According to the results, there were four suggestions for Governments. 1. To enforce teenagers' leisure education. 2. To educate more leisure professionals. 3. To open more Campuses for teenagers to exercise. 4. To develop appropriate leisure places.