| 英文摘要 |
This research is to investigate the modern characteristics of rural yonth (farm and fishery youth) and its relationship with other individual variables and social behavior. The data has been collected from 655 sample youth with questionnaire survey method. The remarkable statements of data analysis explore that implictly most of the rural youth have changed their psychological characteristics from traditional states to modernity, and in comparison, the farm youth seem to show higher modernity than that of the fishery youth. The output data of factor analysis further indicate achievement motivation, authoritarian personality and the belief to agricultural or fishery industry are three major and validable concepts for measuring and exhibiting the modern characteristics of the rural youth. These three new conceptual factors are also significantly correlated with education, level of farm or fishery training, frequency of efficient communication and partly variables of social behavior such as human relation in positive dimension. |