英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study was to assess teachers' beliefs and concerns about self-esteem and body image incorporated curriculum, and examine their relationship. By using a probability proportionate to size sampling method, health and physical education teachers were selected from 8 northern cities in Taiwan. Among the sample, 281 provided valid data (response rate 74.3 %) with a mailed questionnaire. Data was analyzed with ANOVA, Pearson product moment correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The results of this research were summarized as follows.
1. Teachers' beliefs of self-esteem and body image incorporated curriculum were positive. 2. Teachers' seven-domain concerns about self-esteem and body image incorporated into curriculum were above average, and the most significant one was consequence concern. 3. Beliefs of self-esteem and body image teaching were negatively associated with awareness and management concerns. On the other hand, teaching beliefs were positively associated with informational, personal, consequence, collaboration and refocusing concerns. 4. The higher the perceived need of students, the more positive the teaching beliefs. Female's beliefs were more positive than male. The higher the frequency of facing mental disturbed students, the more positive the teaching beliefs. 5. The level of concerns about self-esteem and body image teaching were associated with students' need and frequency of facing with mental disturbed students. 6. School and personal factors could explain 18.5% variance of teaching beliefs of self-esteem and body image incorporated curriculum. 7. School and personal factors could explain could explain 13.1-22.2% variance of the seven domain concerns. |