| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 教育研究所 === 98 === In this paper, an empirical study for the relationships between junior high school students’ attitudes toward money and delinquency based on social control theory and social learning theories. The purposes of this study were to investigate: (a) the relationships between social control and associate delinquent peers and attitudes toward money; (b) the relationships between social control, associate delinquent peers and attitudes toward money and delinquency. The sample in this study consisted of 747 students from 8 junior high schools in the metropolitan areas of Taiwan. In this study, statistical analyses included descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and nested regression model analysis.
The major findings were as followings: (a) students who had stronger attachment to schools, involvement and belief were more likely to ignore the monetary importance; (b) students who had stronger attachment to peers and belief were more likely to ignore the monetary power; (c) students who had stronger involvement and belief were less likely to feel anxiety for money; (d) students who had stronger attachment to parents, attachment to schools, commitment, involvement and belief were more likely to have budget planning; (e) attachment to parents and belief had negative relationships with delinquency, and there was positive relationships between associate delinquent peers and delinquency; (f) when including effects of associate delinquent peers, the significant relationships between attitudes toward money and social control were not changed; (g) when including attitudes toward money, the significant relationships between social control and associate delinquent peers and delinquency were not changed.
Finally, possible explanations for these findings and implications were discussed. Based on the findings, this study also proposed some relevant suggestions that could be a reference to parents, teachers and researchers.
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