A study of adult students’ knowledge, preparation and learning needs on successful aging － sampling from adult students attending adult education program of Taipei Institute of Technology

• Main Authors: HU SHU HUE, 胡淑慧
• Other Authors: 黃明月
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02608345912905134375

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 社會教育學系在職進修碩士班 === 97 === This study aims to understand the adult students’ knowledge, preparation and learning needs of successful aging. Among 1400 sample group, the valid samples are 602. Based on t-testing, one-way ANOVA analysis, product-moment correlation, stepwise multiple regression analysis, the findings are as follows: 1.In general, the importance of successful aging has been recognized but not yet well prepared and needs to be learned. 2. Overall, family relationships receive higher attention on the knowledge, preparation, and learning needs for successful moving forward to aged. Importance of health and independent have been recognized but the readiness merely reached the level of “occasionally” and it shows a demand of learning needs on healthy live. It indicates a successful aging awareness, readiness and learning needs related to development of life, living style and personal resources. 3. The favorable learning ways of successful aging is e learning, followed by service learning and intergenerational learning, showing the learning ways will be varied. 4. Background variables for knowledge, preparation,and learning needs on successful aging reveal significant on gender, age, marital status,occupation, annual income, religion, health, class attend in the past, live with the elders and so on, and the factor of annual income and religion is the common effect. 5.Knowledge, preparation ,and learning needs represent a positive correlation with an adult student successful aging. 6.The life adaptation stratification of aging cognition shows the highest degree of prediction on the demand of successful learning,the life adaptation stratification of aging leaning needs shows the highest degree of prediction on the aging preparation and the health and independent stratification of leaning need shows the highest degree of prediction on the successful aging knowledge. According to the findings, some suggestions. were provided for school curriculum development.