A Study of the Relationship between Elementary School Students’Social skills and Happiness

• Main Authors: Yen-Hui Mei, 殷惠美
• Other Authors: Tsung-Li Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98526352870214506201

碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 教學視導碩士學位學程 === 100 === The purpose of this paper is: 1. to investigate the current condition of elementary school students’ social skills and happiness 2. to explain how the social skills varies with elementary school students’ environments variables. 3. to show how happiness differs from elementary school students’ environments variables. 4. to demonstrate the relationship between elementary school students’ social skills and happiness. 5. to investigate how social skills relate to happiness among elementary school students. This study chose questionnaire survey method. The tool used were “The Questionnaire of primary school students’ social skills.” and “The Questionnaire of primary school students’ happiness.” developed by the researcher. The study objects were students in fourth and sixth grade in Kaohsiung city. The study samples through stratified random sampling. The effective samples are 828 in total. According to the result of the questionnaire, the following conclusions are gained by descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way variance of analysis, Pearson’s product-moment correlation method, and the regression analysis in multiple steps. Conclusions are drawn as follows： 1. Elementary school students are generally good at social activities, especially in obedient behavior. 2. Elementary school students get along with each other by chatting and playing games. 3. Elementary school students generally feel happy. Their social participation performs the best, but less better in positive emotions. 4. During school life, elementary school students enjoy doing what they like the most. 5. Elementary school’s girl students have better social skills and perceive more happiness. 6. Elementary school student who is the youngest among their siblings have better social skills and perceive more happiness than students who is the middles. 7. Elementary school students who are from nuclear family have better social skills and perceive more happiness than students who are from grandparents-bleeding family. 8. Elementary school students who are better in social skills perceive more happiness. Social skills and happiness have positive relationships. 9. Elementary school students’ social skills can be a reference to predict their happiness. The conclusions above have the following implications： 1. For educational administrative organization and school administration. 2. For elementary school teachers. 3. For future studies.