| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 幼兒教育學系碩士班 === 98 === For most households, television is a necessity of life. The interesting programs and the diversified special effects on TV are fascinating to viewers. However, in addition to entertainment and pleasure, does it have other effects on young children? This study investigated the correlation between TV viewing behavior and health status among young children in central Taiwan. The questionnaire survey method was adopted. The research tool was a self-developed questionnaire titled “survey on TV viewing behavior and health status of young children”. Based on multi-stage simple random sampling, this study selected a total of 1,063 young children aged between 4~6 from six cities/counties in central Taiwan, including Miaoli County, Taichung City, Taichung County, Changhua County, Nantou County, and Yunlin County. Data collected from these young children were analyzed using various methods, including descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, simple regression analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The conclusions are as follows:
I. TV viewing behavior and health status of current young children
1.TV viewing behavior includes young children’s viewing behavior and parent-child co-viewing behavior. The respondents showed good TV viewing behavior in both aspects.
2.Young children’s health status includes physical, mental, and social health. Results showed that the surveyed young children had good health status.
II. The relationship between TV viewing behavior and background variables of young children
Young children’s background variables include gender, age, body mass index (BMI), residing city, vision, weekly frequency of watching TV, daily duration of watching TV, duration of watching TV on a holiday. Young children’s family background variables include household socioeconomic status, number of TV sets in the household, location of TV set(s), and access to cable TV. Variables having a significant relationship with TV viewing behavior are summarized as follows:
1. Young children’s viewing behavior
(1)Girls were better than boys in terms of TV viewing behavior.
(2)Young children with a normal body build had better TV viewing behavior than those with other types of body builds.
(3)Young children living in Taichung City had better TV viewing behavior than young children living in other cities and counties.
(4)Young children without near-sightedness had better TV viewing behavior than those with near-sightedness.
(5)Young children who watched TV no more than five days a week had better TV viewing behavior than who watched TV 6-7 days a week.
(6)Young children who watched TV less than one hour a day had better TV viewing behavior than those who watched TV more than one hour a day.
(7)Young children who watched TV less than two hours on a holiday had better TV viewing behavior than those who watched TV more than two hours on a holiday.
(8)Young children with only one TV set in the household had better TV viewing behavior than those with two or more TV sets in the household.
(9)Young children with no TV set placed in the dining room or the bedroom had better TV viewing behavior than those with a TV set placed in any of the two places.
(10)Young children with no access to cable TV had better TV viewing behavior than those with access to cable TV.
2. Parent-child co-viewing behavior
(1)Young children with a normal body build had better parent-child co-viewing than those with a fat body.
(2)Young children who watched TV 2 days a week had better parent-child co-viewing behavior than those who watched TV 7 days a week.
(3)Young children who watched TV less than one hour a day had better parent-child co-viewing behavior than those who watched TV more than one hour a day.
(4)Young children who watched TV less than two hours a day on a holiday had better parent-child co-viewing behavior than those who watched TV more than two hours on a holiday.
(5)Young children whose family socioeconomic status was at Level 2 or Level 3 had better parent-child co-viewing behavior than those whose family socioeconomic status was at Level 4 or Level 5.
(6)Young children without a TV set in their rooms had better parent-child co-viewing behavior than those with a TV set in their rooms.
(7)Young children with no access to cable TV had better parent-child co-viewing behavior than those with access to cable TV.
III. The relationship between young children’s TV viewing behavior and health status
1. Young children’s viewing behavior
Young children’s viewing behavior had predicting power for their physical, mental, and social health as well as overall health status. Among these aspects, young children’s overall health status could be better explained by young children’s viewing behavior.
2. Parent-child co-viewing behavior
Parent-child co-viewing behavior had predicting power for their physical, mental, and social health as well as overall health status. Among these aspects, young children’s physical health subscale could be better explained by parent-child co-viewing behavior.
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