An Investigation of the Relationship among Parenting Style, Learning Motivation, and Extracurricular Activity Participation of the High School Students in Kaohsiung City.

• Main Authors: Yueh-lin Chang, 張岳琳
• Other Authors: Tai-chu Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jb76b4

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 教育研究所 === 104 === The purpose of the study is to explore the relationship among parenting style, learning motivation and extracurricular activity participation of high school students. The computerized questionnaire testing system (or online survey system), the Survey Monkey is applied on high school students in the class. Six high schools in the Kaohsiung City are selected. With two classes chosen from each school, totally 393 students participate in the study, and 385 valid questionnaires returned. The response rate is 97.96%. All the data are analyzed by SPSS 19.0 software, and descriptive statistics, t-test, Pearson’s Product-moment Correlation, one way ANOVA, multiple regression analysis are used in the study. The findings indicate that: I. The relationship among background variables, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, extracurricular activity participation motivation, and extracurricular activity participation attitude as following: 1. Female students have higher intrinsic motivation than male students, also have more positive attitude in extracurricular activity participation. 2. Grade and parent’s education have no significant influence on intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, or motivation and attitude of extracurricular activity participation. 3. Taking a leader role or not has no significant influence on intrinsic motivation or extrinsic motivation. But on extracurricular activity participation (motivation and attitude), students who are taking a leader role has more positive attitude of participation. Only it has no influence on motivation of participation. For students who are not taking a leader role, their motivation and attitude have no significant difference. 4. Students who are attending the extracurricular activity more frequently have stronger motivation and more positive attitude. II. With parents tending to be emotional warmth parenting style, those students have higher intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, stronger motivation of participation, and more positive attitude of participation. III. With parents tending to be rejection parenting style can not significantly predict the intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and extracurricular activity participation (motivation and attitude). IV. With parents tending to be over protection parenting style, those students have higher extrinsic motivation, and more positive attitude of participation. V. Students with higher extracurricular activity participation (motivation and attitude) have higher intrinsic and extrinsic learning motivation. According to the results of the study, some implications are made to improve the school education, parenting education and research in the future.