| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 特殊教育學系 === 107 === This purpose of the study was to investigate the current state of mental health of adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and to explore the mental health differences and predictions of ASD under different background variables.
The research tools used are the “Mental Health inventory for Adolescent” and the "Student Basic Information Questionnaire" and the” Parent Basic Information Questionnaire “sent to 98 ASD members in junior high school and high school in Keelung, Taipei and New North. The data of Questionnaires was analyzed with SPSS statistical software. The resulting survey data with approaches as description statistics, one way ANOVA，and simultaneous multiple regression analysis. The results of this study were described as following:
1.Mental health status of adolescents with ASD
The overall physical and mental health of adolescents of ASD and the mental health status of each subscale are comparable to those of adolescents. Seventy percent of the adolescents with ASD have positive mental health status, and about 30% of the adolescents with ASD have psychological problems. The level of mental health from high to low is self-identity, physical, positiveness , easiness, happiness,and sociability. The adolescents with ASD had positive self-identity and had troubled by social relationships.
2. The senior high school students are significantly better than junior high
school students in physical health, sociability. The junior high school students are more positiveness than senior high school students.
3. There were no significant differences in the mental health status of adolescents of ASD who were informed of age on the full scale or subscale, but parents were informed earlier better than the age they found.
4. There was no significant difference in the mental health status of adolescents of ASD with different parenting teaching styles.
5. The high family socio-economic status are happyiness, significantly better than the middle and low family socio-economic status.
6. There was no significant difference in the whole mental health status of adolescents of ASD with different academic achievements in the full scale or subscale.
7. There was no significant difference in the whole mental health status of adolescents of ASD with different peer relationships in the full scale or
subscale.
8. The self-identification of those who participate in the network community is significantly better than those who do not participate in the network community.
9. The relationship between the age, family social status, and network community on the whole mental health of adolescents of ASD.
(1) The increase of their ages has a positive impact on the physical health, happiness, sociability and whole mental health of adolescents of ASD; self-identification and positiveness showed downward trend as their age increase.
(2) The family socio-economic status has a positive impact on the students' happiness, sociability, self-identification and the whole mental health.
(3) The network community has a positive impact on the self-identification of the students；other aspects as discussed in the study and the whole mental health showed no differences.
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