A Study on Life Attitude of Ninth-grade students in Taoyuan County

• Main Authors: Chuen-Ying Shao, 邵春瑛
• Other Authors: Frank Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45168715803301550211

碩士 === 中原大學 === 教育研究所 === 99 === Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore the life attitude of Ninth-grade students in Taoyuan County and its’ related factors. This study was stated for promoting the quality in junior education in Taiwan. The study adopted the method of questionnaire survey and “the questionnaire of life attitude of Ninth-grade students” was developed as the instrument. Subjects were stratified random sampling of 1448 Ninth-grade students from 23 junior high schools of 99 school year in Taiwan. The valid samples were 1426 students which gives a usable return rate of 95.2%. Descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA were used to analyze the data. The important findings were as follows: 1. The Ninth-grade students in Taoyuan County scored over average on life attitude. The highest scores fell in " Independent life attitude"；the lowest scores were in "Love and concern ". 2. males had higher life attitude than female . 3. There were significant difference in the "independent life attitude" and "life experience" in terms of school location. There were significant difference in the "pursuit of the ideal", "sense of existence"and"death attitude "in terms of school size . Students in the suburb with classes more than 49 had highest scores. 4. Ninth-grade students who have over 210 minutes of physical exercise weekly score higher than students who have less than 210 minutes of physical exercise weekly. 5. There were significant difference of life attitude for ninth-grade students in different religions. 6. Mothers had more impact on life attitude than friends and classmates. 7. There were significant difference of life attitude for ninth-grade students in terms of parenting style. 8. Socioeconomic status significantly affected the life attitude of Ninth-grade students. 9. Birth order, BMI, marital status of parents had little effect on the life attitude of ninth-grade students in Taoyuan County. Based on the conclusions mentioned above, suggestions for the educational administrations, schools, teachers, parents and future studies were studies were resented.