成人參與教育活動動機之研究

Study of Motivation for Adult Education

本文根據文獻探討，詳細說明有關成人參與教育活動動機的研究的發展，並介紹有關動機的評量方法。目前有關動機的評量以自製的量表為主要的研究工具，文中介紹Dr. Sheffield Dr.Boshier等人著名的量表及其發展過程。成人參與教育活動動機往往受到各項心理及社會人口特質的影響，本文說明了成人學習者的特性，並依據過去的研究，說明了年齡、教育程度、職業、收入、性別、婚姻狀況、居住地區等各項特質及其交互作用影響於參與動機的情形。

Depending on the review of literature, this article described the development of the study of motivation for adult education and introduced some methods about measuring motivation. The main tools for measuring motivation are scales of self-made at the present time. Therefore, some famous scales developed by Dr. Sheffield and Dr. Boshier are introduced in this article in order to provide some models for the researchers in Taiwan. The unique characteristics of adults as learners were explored in this article, too. According to past research, Sociodemographic variables such as sex, age, occupation, marital status, educational level, appear to play a relatively modest role in influencing educational participation and persistence behavior of adults. There are some explanations about the influsncial variables in this article.