Comparison of Current Leisure Life and Relational Models between Gifted and Regular Students of Taiwan’s Junior High and Elementary School

• Main Author: 李偉清
• Other Authors: 吳武典
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57119233850941928278

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 特殊教育學系 === 96 === The purpose of this dissertation was to compare the differences of current leisure life and its relational models between gifted and regular students of the junior high and elementary school in Taiwan. Seven aspects of leisure life and influenced models, including leisure time, leisure activities, leisure places, leisure buddies, freedom to choose leisure activities, reasons for leisure activities, and satisfaction of leisure activities were discussed in this study. A self-designed questionnaire, Questionnaire of current situation of leisure life for students, was used to survey gifted and regular students of the junior high and elementary school in Taiwan. 2,238 valid samples were collected by the stratified random sampling and cluster sampling. The samples were divided into three sets by a random procedure. The first sample set was analyzed by item analysis and exploratory factor analysis to look for the best theoretical construction and most appropriate items. The results showed that the factors had great structures and there were construction validities in this scale. The reliabilities of the data were satisfactory, too. The three samples were then combined and analyzed by descriptive statistics, chi-square, analysis of variance, in order to understand the differences of leisure life between gifted and regular students. Moreover, the second sample set was analyzed by structure equation modeling, including confirmatory factor analysis, to evaluate the goodness of fit between collected data and proposed theoretical model in this study. The cross-validation was tested by the third sample set. The results showed that the corrected relational model of leisure life was a stable, predictive and valid model. Finally, the second sample set was analyzed by multi-group analysis. The results showed that the relational model of leisure life between gifted and regular students was different. The major conclusions of this study included: 1. Self-designed questionnaire, Questionnaire of current situation of leisure life for students, has good reliabilities and validities. It can be used to evaluate the current leisure life of students. 2. There were significant differences in all of seven aspects of current leisure life between gifted and regular students. Gifted students surpassed regular students in leisure activities and places of literature and art, freedom to choose leisure time and leisure time slots. Regular students surpassed gifted students in reasons for social intercourse and competence-proficiency, and leisure satisfaction about physical satisfaction. 3. There were differences in relational models of leisure life between gifted and regular students, mainly resulted from the participation in of social intercourse activities. Other factors causing the differences were the participation in physical vigor activities, and the average daily leisure time during non-holidays.