The Effect of a Life-and-Death Education Group Program on Purpose in Life And Death Attitude of Senior High School Students

• Main Authors: Wen Chi, Jai, 翟文棋
• Other Authors: 戴嘉南
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01431651044659594567

碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 輔導研究所 === 91 === The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of a life- and-death education program on senior high school students. The quasi-experimental design was conducted. Students were recruited from a senior high school in Pingtung City. Twenty subjects (n=20) then were non-randomly divided into an experimental group (n=10) and a control group (n=10). The experimental group took part in “the music of life” group programs in life-and-death education for a period of four weeks, including four units and twenty-four hours in total. The “purpose in life scale”(PIL) and “death attitude profile scale”(DAP) were used to evaluate pre-intervention and post-intervention achievement and a follow-up test. The data were analyzed by using the one-factor analysis of covariance with the SPSS 8.0 statistics software package. The results of this study were as follows： 1. The post-intervention evaluation shows that “the music of Life” group programs could significantly increase the score on the sub-scale“the value of life”but could not significantly increase“the quality of life”,“the purpose of life” and “the freedom of life” and all the four sub-scales on DAP of the experimental group. 2.　One month after intervention, the experimental group was still scores higher than the control one on a sub-scale“the value of life” of the PIL；“the music of life” program could also decrease the score on a sub-scale“the fear of death attitude” of the DAP. However the experimental group could not significantly score higher on the sub-scales“the quality of life”,“the goal of life” and“the freedom of life” on PIL. 3. The researcher also analyzed the contents obtained from the transcript of the eight group sessions and from group members'''' feedback sheets in the experimental group. The findings of qualitative analysis were as follows： (1) “The music of life “group programs had positive influences on the members on life-meaning attitude and death attitude. (2) “The music of life “group programs was highly accepted by the members. (3) It is practical to complement life-and-death education in senior high schools. 4.The results of this study and applications of the programs were discussed；suggestions for future researches were proposed.