A Study of Senior High School Students'' Cognitive Attitude of Buddhism and the Meaning in Life

碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學研究所 === 94 ===   The purpose of this study is to discuss the actual condition of Senior high school students'' idea about meaning of life and the cognitive attitude of Buddhism and to further analyze the relationships between the two variables. Questionnaire survey and d...

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Main Authors: Ching-chieh Liao, 廖靜婕
Other Authors: Ching-long Shieh
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2006
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68375464764978956932
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Summary:碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學研究所 === 94 ===   The purpose of this study is to discuss the actual condition of Senior high school students'' idea about meaning of life and the cognitive attitude of Buddhism and to further analyze the relationships between the two variables. Questionnaire survey and depth interview have been adopted in this study. The subjects of questionnaire survey are the 1120 students from 8 senior high schools in Yunlin County. There are 8 students from questionnaire survey participating in the depth interview. The research uses tools that include "questionnaire on the cognitive attitude of Buddhism", "life attitude profile", and "semi-structured." The questionnaire of life attitude profile is from Dr. Y. C. Ho''s (1990) "Sectional drawing of attitude of life." In this research, the statistic analysis methods contain Descriptive statistics, item analysis, factor analysis, T-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson correlation. According to this research, some conclusions are summarized as follows:     1.Senior high school students have the above-the-average cognitive attitude of Buddhism and meaning of life. Senior high school students have lower ultimate goal of Buddhism.     2.Senior high school students have lower depression orientation and suicidal tendency.     3.Differences of suicidal tendency among Senior high school students with meaning of life are significant. Senior high school students with lower suicidal tendency have higher meaning of life. Senior high school students with lower suicidal tendency have higher life goal and lower life frustration.     4.Senior high school students with no suicidal tendency have higher relationship between cognitive of Buddhism and meaning of life.     5.Senior high school students with better interpersonal relationship had the higher meaning of life. Senior high school students with better interpersonal relationship have the higher aim of life.     6.Differences of depression orientation among senior high school students with meaning of life and cognitive of Buddhism are significant. Senior high school students with lower depression orientation had the lower existential frustration. Senior high school students with no depression orientation have the better aim of life than others. Senior high school students with no depression orientation have better relationship between meaning of life and cognitive of Buddhism than others.     7.It has higher relationship between ultimate concern, ultimate commitment, and meaning of life.     8.Senior high school students with acceptant influence of peers have the lower aim of life.     9.Senior high school students with no influence of peers have better relationship between meaning of life and cognitive of Buddhism than others.     10.Senior high school students whose parents'' educational backgrounds are above the junior college have lower relationship between meaning of life and cognitive of Buddhism than others.     11.Senior high school students whose parents'' religion is Buddhism have higher relationship between meaning of life and cognitive attitude of Buddhism than others.     12.Senior high school students of Buddhism have higher relationship between meaning of life and cognitive attitude of Buddhism than others.     13.Senior high school students have lower ultimate goal and they identify with civic-minded and charitable altruism. As for Buddhist cognition senior high school students generally identify with karma about the benefit and punitive cognition in depth interview.