A Study of Parental Education Needs and Attending Willingness for Grandparents

• Main Authors: Chen Jen-Fei, 陳貞妃
• Other Authors: Lin Shwu-Ling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3a28bu

碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 家庭教育研究所 === 90 === A Study of Parental Education Needs and Attending Willingness for Grandparents Chen Jen-Fei Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among demographic variables, needs of parental education and attending willingness of grandparents. The participants, selected by judgmental sampling , consisted of 431 grandparents in Kaoshiung. The instrumentation applied in this study was ”Grandparents Parental Education Needs Inventory” .The obtained data was analyzed by t-test, One-Way ANOVA, Scheffe''s method, Person Product Moment Correlation, and Multiple Regression Analysis. The results of this study includes： 1.“Child rearing, “ ”self health care,” ”family adjustment,” and ”child educating, ” were the three urgent needs in parental education for grandparents. 2.Grandparents parental education needs and attending willingness in all subjects are middle. 3.The most welcome format of grandparents parental education was ” motionless format .” 4.The attending willingness of grandparents parental education need to be promoted. 5.The grandparents who were younger, higher educational background, “skipped generation” families , with grandparent education experience had high grandparent parental education needs. 6.The grandparents who were male , younger , higher educational background, with grandparent education experiences had a high preference for grandparents learning format. 7.The grandparents who were younger, higher educational background, “skipped generation” families, with grandparent education experiences had high attending willingness of parental education . 8.There was significant correlation between grandparents parental education needs and grandparents parental education attending willingness. 9.Grandparents parental education needs and age could effectively predict their attending willingness. Based on the results of this study , some suggestions were proposed for school, family education institutions and further studies in the future.