Magician of Life---The Designing and Evaluation of Death Education for Junior High School Students

• Main Authors: Huang, Jen-Jen, 黃禎貞
• Other Authors: Yen, Han-Wen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45224531853382067733

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 衛生教育研究所 === 90 === The purpose of this study was to understand the influence of the death education on the junior high school students’ death awareness, death concept, loss concept, death attitude and purpose in life through death education course designing and death education achievement evaluation. The quasi-experimental design was adopted. Four classes of 8th grade students from the Life junior high school in Taipei City were purposely selected as subjects (n=114) and randomly divided them between experimental group (n=57) and control group (n=57). The experimental group took part in a series of death education courses for a period of 4 weeks, but the control group didn’t. The death education achievement evaluation was administered pre, post and post-post intervention to all study subjects to evaluate their death awareness, death concept, loss concept, death attitude and purpose in life. The data was analyzed by using the One-Factor Analysis of Covariance with SAS 6.12 statistical software package. The results of the study were as follow： 1. The death education courses ”Magician of Life” could significantly increase death awareness, loss concept, death attitude and purpose in life of the experimental group. 2. After intervention 1.5 months, the experimental group was still higher than the control one on death awareness, death attitude and purpose in life scores. The result of the study and applications of the program were discussed and suggestions for future research were proposed.