英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study was to understand the influence of the death education on the junior high school students' death awareness, death concept, loss concept, death attitude and purpose in life through death education course designing and death education achievement evaluation. The factorial design was adopted. Four classes of 8th grade students from the specific junior high school in Taipei City were purposely selected as subjects (n=114) and randomly assigned them to experimental group (n=57) and control group (n=57). The experimental group took part in a series of death education courses for a period of 4 weeks, but the control group didn't. The death education achievement evaluation was administered pre, post and post-post intervention to all study subjects to evaluate their death awareness, death concept, loss concept, death attitude and purpose in life. The data was analyzed by using the Multivariate Analysis of Covariance with SPSS 10.07 statistical software package. The results of the study were as follows: 1. The death education courses could significantly increase death awareness, loss concept, death attitude and purpose in life of the subjects in the experimental group. 2. After intervention 1.5 months, the experimental group was still higher than the control one on death awareness, death attitude and purpose in life scores. The result of the study and applications of the program were discussed and recommendations for future research were proposed. |