英文摘要 |
The main purpose of this study was to understand how undergraduate students’ will to undertake ‘final life stage planning and the factors related to the participants’ individual backgrounds and life experience affect their desire to undertake ‘final life stage planning. The 367 participants were students, sampled from an university using the stratified proportional random sampling method. The research questionnaire was designed by the researcher. The results showed that there were 17 aspects of final life stage planning that could be categorized under 'together with family and friends,' 'death to prepare', 'fulfilled' and 'life-prints', using factor analysis. In addition, 'together with family and friends' attracted the highest average score, and 'death to prepare' the lowest one. The results also showed that whether or not the participants wished to undertake final life stage planning was significantly different based on their individual background variables (gender, religion) and environmental experience (death of family members and whether family member are open to discuss the death, personal contact with war violence and video game experience). Finally, according to the conclusions, the researcher also proposed some suggestions for future study and life or death educational programs which will involve the core concepts of the final life stage planning |