The Effect of A Gratitude Course based on the Holy Bible for Seven Grade Students.

• Main Authors: Pei-Ling,Lin, 林沛玲
• Other Authors: Li-Jung,Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88271418355472180704

碩士 === 東海大學 === 宗教研究所 === 96 === The Effect of A Gratitude Course based on the Holy Bible for 7th Grade Students. Abstracts This research is aimed at evaluating the change of the seventh grade students' attitudes toward gratitude after participating the gratitude program based on the Holy Bible which is appropriate for these students, and we can realize the effects of this program on the students' views about gratitude. There are two questionnaires in this research on examining people's attitudes toward gratitude. One questionnaire includes 44 questions from GRAT (Gratitude, Resentment, and Appreciation Test) by Watkins (1998) while the other includes 6 questions from GQ-6 (Gratitude Questionnaire 6) by McCullough, Emmons and Tsang (2002). This research contains activities of the gratitude program and the quasi-experimental design. We can learn what the effects of the gratitude program on the seventh grades would be from the statistics. Since gratitude is a general topic, we must set up definite researching principles. According to the age and needs of the subjects, the gratitude program is designed by the researcher who refers to the literature review. This program also combines the materials inspired by the stories from the Holy Bible with activities and hymns. The subjects of the research are separated into experimental and control group. The former group consists of 50 students from three classes in A public junior high school in middle Taiwan who practice the gratitude program, and the latter consists of 47 students from two classes in B public junior high school in the same district who do not practice the program instead. The total subjects are 97 students. The researcher teaches the experimental group the program during the joint courses hour, once a week. The researcher uses GRAT and GQ-6 in the program. Before the program starts, the researcher tests both groups. After the experimental group finished the gratitude program and keeps journals of gratitude for 8 weeks, the researcher tests both groups again. When the experimental group keeps journals for another 4 weeks, the researcher tests both groups again and studies the effects on the students' attitudes toward gratitude. The data is counted as the frequency distribution, ANCOVA, and multiple regression. The results of the research are as follows: 1) The experimental and contrastive group do not show clear diversity between their scores of every items from the first test. 2) The results of the t scores of both experimental and contrastive group from the second test: There's no obvious difference between the scores of sense of satisfaction of both groups. The experimental group makes noticeable progress in the economical item from GRAT compared with the contrastive group, which shows that the students of the experimental group have the economical sense in gratitude when the program started. The scores of gratitude toward people from GRAT of both groups make no distinct difference. The scores from GQ-6 of the experimental group are apparently higher than those of the contrastive group, which shows that the students of the experimental group have higher frequency in gratitude. 3) The results of the t scores of both experimental and contrastive group from the third test and of regression: The experimental group makes significant progress in the sense of satisfaction, the economical manner, gratitude for people and GQ-6 compared with the contrastive group, which shows that the former's students' attitudes toward gratitude have changed significantly since the program started. According to the results above, this research ends with concrete, feasible suggestions for future studies. Key words: Life education, Gratitude course, Character Education.