| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 98 === A Study of Exercise Behavior of Preschoolers in Middle and North Areas of Taiwan
Ching-Yi Liang
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting exercise behavior of preschoolers in middle and north areas of Taiwan. Based on the background variables of main caregiver, preschool caregiver, and preschooler, this study analyzed main caregivers’ and preschool caregivers’ attitude toward preschooler exercise and the difference between preschoolers’ exercise behavior at home and their exercise behavior at school. The research subjects were main caregivers, preschool caregivers, and certified kindergarten and nursery school students in middle and north areas of Taiwan selected using convenience sampling method. A total of 536 valid questionnaire responses were obtained. These responses were processed and analyzed using descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, t-test, and Pearson product-moment correlation. The main findings are as follows:
1. Analysis of exercise attitude by main caregivers’ background variables:
(1)Female main caregivers have a significantly better exercise attitude than male ones.
(2)Main caregivers who have attended “graduate school or above”, “college or university” or “high or vocational school” have a significantly better exercise attitude than those who have only attended “junior high school or below”.
(3)Main caregivers who exercise “more than 60 minutes” each time have a significantly better exercise attitude than those who exercise “16~30 minutes” or “15 minutes or less” each time.
(4)Main caregivers’ “attitude toward preschooler exercise” significantly varies by their “occupation” and “monthly household income”.
2. Analysis of exercise attitude by preschool caregivers’ background variables: Preschool caregivers’ “attitude toward preschooler exercise” significantly differs by their “duration of service” and “age”.
3. Analysis of preschoolers’ exercise behavior at home by main caregivers’ background variables:
(1)Preschoolers whose main caregivers are female have significantly more exercise behavior at home than those whose main caregivers are male.
(2)Preschoolers whose main caregivers who have attended “graduate school or above”, “college or university” or “high or vocational school” have significantly more exercise behavior than those whose main caregivers have only attended “junior high school or below”.
(3)Preschoolers’ exercise behavior at home significantly varies by their main caregivers’ “monthly household income”.
(4)Preschoolers whose main caregivers “do exercise more frequently” have significantly more exercise behavior than those whose main caregivers “never do exercise”.
(5)Preschoolers whose main caregivers do exercise for “a longer period of time” have significantly more exercise behavior than those whose main caregivers do exercise for “less than 15 minutes”.
4. Analysis of preschoolers’ exercise behavior at school by preschool caregivers’ background variables:
(1)Preschoolers’ exercise behavior at school varies by their preschool caregivers’ “duration of service” and “monthly income”.
(2)Preschoolers whose preschool caregivers have an education background in “preschool education” have significantly more exercise behavior at school than those whose preschool caregivers have an education background in “non-preschool education areas”.
(3)Preschoolers whose preschool caregivers teach “1~10” students in a class have significantly more exercise behavior at school than those whose preschool caregivers teach “more than 31” students in a class.
5. A significant relationship exists between “main caregiver’s attitude toward preschooler exercise” and “preschool exercise behavior at home”.
6. No significant relationship exists between “preschool caregiver’s attitude toward preschooler exercise” and “preschool exercise behavior at school”.
7. Analysis of preschoolers’ exercise behavior at home and at school by their background variables:
(1)In terms of exercise behavior at home, preschoolers in the “senior class” are better than those in the “junior class”; among senior-class preschoolers, students in the “low height group” are better than those in the “high height group”.
(2)In terms of exercise behavior at school, “boys” are better than “girls”; preschoolers in the “senior or middle class” are better than those in the “junior class”; preschoolers’ exercise behavior at school significantly differs by “the duration that preschoolers have been enrolled at the kindergarten and nursery school”.
Keywords: exercise attitude, exercise behavior, main caregiver, preschool caregiver, preschooler
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