Effects of Parents' Motivation of Participating in Preschool Parent-Child Recreation Activities on Children's prosocial Behavior

• Main Authors: Wang Raan Huea, 王冉卉
• Other Authors: 趙叔蘋
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83570430057336165496

碩士 === 國立臺灣體育學院 === 體育研究所 === 90 === Abstract This research was based on “The Sport Motivation Scale (SMS)” modified by Pelletier, Fortier, Tuson & Blais (1995). After a pretest on two kindergartens in Chia-yi , new dimensions and items of parents’ motivation of participating in preschool parent-child recreation activities were defined. The research process consisted of three stages .The first stage is to distribute questionnaires to 31parents with kids in fours in the affiliated kindergarten of Chia-yi Home Economic Vocational High School . The second stage is to video-record and observe kids’ activities at school; The third stage is to interview kids in the class. According to the collected data analyzed by descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, and t-test, the results were as follows: 1. Analyzing the collected data, the researcher identified what is called presocial behavior as helping behavior, sharing behavior and cooperative behavior. 2. In the motivation Scale, four dimensions with eighteen items were investigated: recreation as learning activity (Cronbachα=.8948), to have fun (Cronbach= .8093), to achieve broader interpersonal relationship(Cronbach α= .8305), need for rest and relaxation (Cronbach α=.6982). 3. Parents’ motivations of participating in preschool parent-child recreation activities were very high, but there are no statistical significant differences in kids’ presocial behaviors (P<.05). However, lack of significant differences here may result from too small a number of the kids in the research . 4. From the current situations of parent-child recreation activities, it was at 2-day-weekend that recreation activities were most often held （58.1%） . 5. In this research, there appeared no significant differences between prosocial activities of kids and present situations of parents-child recreation activities. However, there were highly significant differences between parents’ marital status and prosocial behavior(P<.001) and this was something worth noticing. 6. From the researcher’s observation and interview, parents’ cognition of recreation was quite different from that of the kids . 7. From the questionnaires and interview, both kids and parents give positive cognition of these activities (above96%). According to literature and results of this research, suggestions were presented as follows: 1. The high reliability of the questionnaires in this research (Cronbachα=.9214) indicated that it may serve to be reference for follow-ups. 2. The most proper time for parent-child recreation activities held by schools or organizations was 2-day-weekend. 3. Parents may participate more in various activities so as to improve the relationship with their children and reduce their cognitive differences with theirs. 4. How to enhance children’s prosocial activities should be put into account in designing parent-child recreation activities.