| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 生態暨環境資源學系生態旅遊碩士班 === 107 === This study is to explore the gradual changes of Taiwanese students’ walking- to-school behavior. Questionnaires are conducted in 2018. This study compared and contrasted the present research and the previous researches. It is found that there are changes in the background variables from the samples collected in 2010.
Whether students walk to school or not is dependent on their parents’ living style or willingness. Followings are the variables that show statistical significance: 1. Fewer are pro to walking-to-school despite the percentage of short distance commuter turns more. 2. The pick-ups by motor vehicles are the majority. 3. Scooter travel reaches the significant level in terms of pick-up transportation. However, the following variables don’t reveal statistical significances: the pupils’ school community, the school administrative domain, the distance to school, the livings, the pupils’ ages, the pupils’ gender, the pupils’ usage of entertaining gadget, and the parents’ career or education.
In cognitive domain, the parents’ willingness on pupils’ walking-to-school are categorized into four aspects —threats, obstacles, benefits, and cues of action. Samples of 2018 showed that parental threat feeling increases while environmental threat feeling decreases. The benefit aspects are “elevating pupils’ mentality and community consensus,” “promoting pupils’ mental and physical healthiness,” and “nursing environmental friendly behavior.” The obstacle aspects are personal security threat, safety of traveling, time management, and pupils’ loading pressure.
This study indicates that the parents agree that walking-to-school does benefit to the environment and to the pupils. However, variables of threat aspect and obstacle aspect show statistic influence on pupils’ walking-to-school behavior.
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