A Study of Relationships among School Hope, and Life Adjustment of Junior High School Students from Different Backgrounds

• Main Authors: CHEN, YI-HSUAN, 陳依璇
• Other Authors: 陳李綢教授
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jgfgum

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系在職進修碩士班 === 100 === This study is to reveal differences in sex, grade and family structure among junior high students and to investigate the relationships between their school hope and life adjustment. The participants in this study are 911 junior high school students in Taipei City, New Taipei City and Keelung City in Taiwan. The questionnaire is used to gather personal information and the study data is collected through the Scale of School and the Scale of Life Adjustment. The data are analyzed by T-test, MANOVA , Pearson correlation, and regression. The findings are as followed： 1.There is no significance between different sex on whole school hope, career goals, career self-evaluation, academic self-evaluation and possibility. However significance is found on students’ academic goals, a subcategory of school hope. And it shows that female students report higher academic goals than their counterparts. 2.Grade differences are found significant on school hope and the other five subcategories of school hope. It shows that seventh graders reported higher scores than eighth and ninth graders. 3.Family structure differences are found significant on school hope and the other five subcategories of school hope. The results indicate that two-parent students reported higher scores than the other graders. 4.There is no significance between sex differences on whole life adjustment and seven subcategories of life adjustment. Besides, there is significant sex difference on social adaptation, a subcategory of life adjustment. The data shows that female students reported higher scores than their counterparts. 5.Grade differences are found significant on life adjustment and the eight subcategories of life adjustment. 6.Family structure differences are found significant on life adjustment and the eight subcategories of life adjustment. The two-parent students reported higher scores than the other graders. 7.There is positive correlation between school hope and life adjustment of junior high school students. 8.School hope significantly predicts life adjustment of junior high school students. This study is based on the findings of the analyzed data in the hope to provide further discussion and practical suggestions for junior high school teachers and for related researches in the future .