The Impact of Sex Role, Self-Concept and Family Socioeconomic Level on Life Adjustment for 6th-Grade Elementary School Children

• Main Authors: Tsu-Jung Hsieh, 謝慈容
• Other Authors: Tung-Shen Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30886181060402848680

碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 幼兒保育系碩士班 === 93 === This study investigated the situation of self-concept and life adjustment of 6th-grade elementary school children. The purposes were to realize the impact of sex attributes and socioeconomic level on self-concept and on life adjustment for 6th-grade children. Besides, it investigated the relationship between self-concept and life adjustment of 6th-grade children. The subjects were 604 6th-grade children chosen by random cluster sampling from Taiping City in Taichung County. The main research method was questionnaire investigation. The research instruments were "Life Adjustment Questionnaire of Elementary Children" by Xin-Hua Wu (2000) and "Self-Concept Questionnaire of Elementary Children" by Yu-Yi Wu & Ya-Ling Hou (2000). All those data had been dealt and analyzed by the method of descriptive statistics, t-test, one way ANOVA, Pearson''s product-moment correlation analysis and stepwise multiple regression analysis. Summary of the results were as follows: 1. There were significant differences in school self, appearance self, body self, emotion self on masculine and feminine attributes of 6th-grade children. However, there were no significant differences in family self and global self-concept on their masculine and feminine attributes. 2.There were significant differences among different socioeconomic levels of 6th-grade children in family self, school self, motion self, and global self-concept. 3. There was no significant difference in life adjustment on masculine and feminine attributes. 4. There were significant differences among different socioeconomic levels of 6th-grade children in life adjustment. Grade 2 differs from grade 3, grade 4 and grade 5. 5. Life adjustment got positive correlation and influence with family self, school self, appearance self, body self, emotion self, global self. Finally, according to these research results, some recommendation were provided. For school, suggestions are: 1. Think highly of individual differences and help students for developing superiority of ability. 2. Provide learning assistance. 3. Provide psychology guidance and assistance. 4. Strengthen discipline of social skill. For parents, suggestions are: 1. Partaking in children''s education zealously. 2. Enhance communications between parents and children. Understand and accept what the children were like. Besides, there were some suggestions for advanced researches.