The Investigation of Parents’ Attitudes and Practices of Self-Determination for Children with Moderately and Severely Handicapped in Elementary Schools

• Main Authors: Jie-ying Chen, 陳价盈
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51618677193244518299

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 重度障礙研究所 === 99 === To investigate the parents’ attitudes and practices of self-determination issues towards their moderately and severely handicapped children placed in elementary school, a questionnaire was developed, pretested and revised, and then a total of 358 participants were recruited and surveyed. Specifically, the goals of this study were three fold: (1) to describe parents’ attitudes of enhancing self-determination towards their children on four domains: self-realization, psychological empowerment, autonomy and self-regulation; (2) to examine whether the parents’ attitudes and practices of enhancing self-determination towards their children vary as a function of family contextual factors; (3) to determine how the parents’ attitudes of enhancing self-determination are related to their self-determination practices. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson product-moment correlation analyses. Findings are as follows. (1) Participants generally held positive attitudes of enhancing self-determination towards their children. (2) Participants’ attitudes of enhancing self-determination towards their children varied as a function of gender and handicapped type of their children, and their experiences of joining social welfare groups. (3) Participants’ practices of enhancing self-determination towards their children varied as a function of their experiences of joining social welfare groups, the handicapped type of their children, SES, family structure, and their getting information about self-determination issues. (4) Participants’ attitudes of enhancing self-determination were positively related to their self-determination practices. Based on those findings, suggestions for educational administrations, school teachers and parents were proposed.