社會文化變遷中的臺灣高山族青少年問題－－五個村落的初步比較研究

ADOLESCENT ADJUSTMENT AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CHANGES AMONG THE TAIWAN ABORIGINES A PRELIMINARY REPORT

本研究為國家科學委員會所推動之大型行為科學研究計劃之一：“社會文化變遷中的青少年問題”專題研究中的一種，其目的在探討社會文化急遽變遷中，作為少數民族群體的臺灣高山族之青少年們如何調適這種變遷，以及在調適的過程中產生了那些問題。本研究的設計擬將研究工作分兩年進行，第一年的工作係選擇五個主要高山族族群進行人類學的參與觀察及深度訪問研究，以便發掘瞭解山地青少年們在調適過程到底面臨了那些問題。第二年的工作則擬採用一般社會科學的訪問及測驗方法，就第一年研究所得之問題擬就問卷及量表，對較大範圍之高山族青少年進行施測，藉以一方面驗證在小社區參與觀察所得資料之可靠性，另一方面亦可探測山地青少年在適應過程中的心理趨向。

This is a preliminary report of the first year's study on the adolescent adjustment of the Taiwan Aborigines. The field works have been done among those tribes of the Atayal, Ami, Bunun, Paiwan and the Yami. About 3/4 of the young peoples from every group have left their villages for the cities and most of them work there as laborers with low economic and social status. Most of the aboriginal factory workers change their job frequently which reveals the dissatisfaction and maladjustment of these culturally minority young workers. The proportion of the unmarried female and male is 100/192, and 40% of young girls marry to peoples other than their own tribal fellow. The phenomena show that the aboriginal young men may have difficulties in getting suitable mates. Judging also from the fact that the divorce rate of these mountain tribes is much higher than the plain living peoples, we may say that the marriage life of many aboigines is somehow uneasy. From other aspects of our survey, such as schooling, ethnic-relations, alcoholism and prostitute behavior, we found that the aboriginal adolscent adjustment to modern setting in the present time is in rather difficult condition, and something should be done urgently in dealing with these problems.