The relationship among natural connectedness, interpersonal relation and well-being of children’s pet keeping

• Main Authors: Fang, Hsiao-Yen, 方筱嫣
• Other Authors: Tseng, Tzu-Hui
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k4d9an

碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 社會學習領域教師碩士在職專班 === 106 === "Pets", a good partner for humans. In recent years, the status of pets is increasing day by day. As early as in 1997, there was a literature found the importance of pets to children's mental health. Additionally, "Natural connectedness" is also one of the important topics that have been extensively discussed recently. There were many studies confirm the necessity of connecting human beings with nature. This study intends to explore whether children can increase interaction and emotion between humans and nature by interacting with pets, and further, enhance interpersonal relationships and happiness. The fifth and sixth grades students were objects in this study which was conducted a questionnaire survey by two-stage sampling method of stratifying and purposive sampling. Total amount of 487 questionnaires were distributed. After we deducted some questionnaires which weren’t completely answered, there were 471 valid questionnaires were received. And then, the data of questionnaires were conducted descriptive statistics, factor analysis, one way analysis of variation, multiple regression analysis and other statistical methods with SPSS 23.0 statistics software. We can draw some conclusions as below from the result of analysis in this study: 1.The behavior of children-pets interaction is generally good, and the pet life care is higher among them. 2. The development of Children’s natural connectedness is generally good. In this study, the correlation of the empathy with natural environment is the highest , however, the contact with natural environment is the lowest. 3. Children's interpersonal relationship is good in general, with family relationships being the highest. 4. The development of children’s happiness is generally good. 5. Children who once raised or are now keeping pets are more able to empathize with the natural environment. 6. Children's natural connectedness has good predictive power to interpersonal relationships. 7. It is more confident to predict happiness when children contact the natural environment deeply. 8. Children's interpersonal relationship has the predictive power to the happiness, and it has the most influence on the peer relation. Finally, according to the result of this study, some suggestions are made for parents, teachers and futher studies.