he Relation among Gratitude , Adolescent ,and Creative Tendency of Junior High School Students in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Sin-Yi Chen, 陳馨怡
• Other Authors: Hsueh-Chih Chen, Ph. D.
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gtem4r

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系在職進修碩士班 === 97 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation among gratitude , adolescent ,and creative tendency of general junior high school students in Taiwan. The researcher adopted the questionnaire survey in stratifying purposive sampling to investigate the students. There were 1206 students in this study, from 11 different junior high schools in Taiwan. Subjects consisted of students from first to third grades in junior high schools. The study employed” Inventory of Adolescent Resilience” (IAR), the Test of Williams Divergent Feeling, and ”Gratitude Resentment and Appreciation Test”, which were revised by researcher. The results of inventory revealed acceptable reliability and construct validity. The Cronbach α coefficient was moderately acceptable with vale from .801 to .832, and Test-retest reliability coefficient was moderately acceptable with vale from .817 to .832. The results of inventory revealed acceptable consistency and stability. The study employed Children’s Optimstic Beliefs Inventory and BYI-II, which were criterions, and the results of concurrent validity revealed best. This study applied descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation, Regression analysis for statistical analysis and the findings were present as the following. 1.Created acceptable reliability and construct validity in the Gratitude Inventory 2.Obvious differences concerning the gratitude are shown in the junior high school students of different family’s factor, friendship, the academic stress. 3.There is significant correlation to the relation between gratitude, adolescent and creative tendency, and the result of Regression analysis is very interesting. The gratitude anticipated adolescent and creative tendency best. The forgoing results were discussed at the latter part of this study. Some concrete suggestions on education of school and family were also provided for future researches.