Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 衛生教育學系在職進修碩士班 === 94 === The purpose of this study was to understand the influencing factors on college students’ attitude toward life and death. The population included 2120 students from a College of Technology in 2005. Four hundred and thirty one valid samples were studied by using stratified cluster sampling method, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe’s method, Pearson’s product moment correlation and multiple regression. The study shows that:
1. The students’ attitude toward life and death was positive. Their attraction to life ranked highest, their repulsion by death ranked second, their attraction to death ranked third, and their repulsion by life ranked last.
2. The students’ social support was above the average .They social support was mainly from friends and emotional.
3. The students’ attitude toward life and death was connected with gender, living with parents, the subjective status of mental and physical health, the experience of relatives’ and friends’ death, the impact of relatives’ and friends’ death, parent’s death, and parenting style.
4. The students’ social support and social support satisfaction were positively correlated with their attitudes toward life and death and the attraction to life. The students’ social support and social support satisfaction were negatively correlated with their repulsion by life. The students’ social support satisfaction was negatively correlated with their attraction to death.
5. The students’ attitudes toward life and death and the attraction to life, their repulsion by life, and their attraction to death can be predicted through gender, the subjective status of mental and physical health, parenting style, the social support and social support satisfaction
Based on these findings, some recommendations have been drawn which can be the references as the education and counseling on college students’ attitude toward life and death and further researches.
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