| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 教師專業發展研究所 === 104 === Abstract
This research is to understand the perception of the meaning of life and differences of background variables affecting the perception among the junior high schoolers in Taichung city.
The study applied the questionnaire to collect data. Samples are 7th-, 8th- and 9th -graders who are currently studying in public junior high schools in Taichung city. In addition, the “Scale of Holistic Life Meaning (SHLM)”, created by Dai (2010) was used to determine the extent of their perception toward the meaning of life. According to the principles of stratified random sampling, there were 1200 copies of questionnaires distributed to various schools, and 1178 copies ready for analysis. Among them, 1113 copies were valid and the return rate was 98.16%. There were 65 copies with invalid data or wrongly response types and thus were removed. The data analyses adopted descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, LSD and Scheffe’s post hoc analyses if a significance was found so that the differences among groups could be understood.
According to the above analyses, there were several findings as follows:
1. Junior high school students’ in Taichung City had a moderate high level of perception toward the meaning of life.
2. The ranking of the holistic life meaning among Taichung’s junior high schoolers was sequentially listed below: "Life Liberty", "Value of Life", and "Spiritual Upgrading".
3. Under the consideration of background variables, junior high schoolers perception of the meaning of life reached significant differences in terms of gender, grade, religion, birth order, family social economic status, and family type, and school district.
Based on the above findings, several recommendations were provided for educational authorities, teachers and future research.
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