A Study on the Relevance among the Students’ Internet Using Behaviors, Parent-child Relationship and Life Adjustment in Elementary School in Kaohsiung City

• Main Author: 沈惠萍
• Other Authors: 黃文三
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15888320949893863792

碩士 === 高雄師範大學 === 教育學系 === 98 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among the elementary school students’ Internet using behaviors, parent-child relationship and life adjustment for elementary school students in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. This study adopted the survey research with 1226 participant 4th and 6th grade elementary school students in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. There were 1165 valid responses with a success rate of 96.8%. The collected data was analyzed by using the statistical methods of reliability analysis, factor analysis, descriptive statistics, independent-samples t-teat, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, canonical correlation, stepwise multiple regression analysis, etc. to confirm the research hypothesis and to conclude some research results. The conclusions of this study were: 1. Most elementary students had connected to the Internet for more than 6 years. The most popular place to log on the Internet was home. They used the Internet twice or three times per week and spent less than an hour at most each time . The most popular motive for Internet-using was playing games with friends, and the main Internet-using activities were playing online games, looking up the information through search engines and downloading things like computer games, videos and MP3s. 2. Generally, the parent-child relationship and life adjustment of elementary school students were in good situation. 3. Significant differences were found among the influences of different background of elementary school students on Internet-using behavior, the parent-child relationship and the life adjustment. 4. The most significant activities were the time they spent on the Internet, the motive for using the Internet and the kind of Internet-using activities influenced their parent-child relationship among elementary school students’ Internet-using behavior. 5. Among elementary school students’ Internet-using behavior, the motive for using the Internet and the kind of Internet-using activities influenced their life adjustment the most significantly. 6. Doing the Internet-using activities about education and learning seemed to have positive influence on elementary school students’ parent-child relationship and life adjustment. 7. The better parent-child relationship the elementary school students had, the better life adjustment they would have. 8. The kind of Internet-using activities and parent-child relationship had the explanation on the predictability of elementary school students’ life adjustment, especially found in the “mutual trust” aspect. Base on the purposes of research, literature review and data analysis results, this study provides suggestions respectively on the authorities concerned, schools, parents and future studies. 1. For the authorities concerned: (1) Make more definite regulations on Internet, in order to provide a safer Internet environment for children. (2) Provide diverse facilities for entertainment to enrich children’s everyday lives. (3) Put Internet into lessons to build up proper values and the positive Internet-using attitude for children’s. 2. For schools and teachers (1) Integrate both community and school resources to build the stronger parent-children connection and the better parent-children relationship. (2) Provide more efficient parental learning groups to inform them the positive Internet-using attitude. (3) Reinforce Internet-safety educations and enhance children’s life adjustment. (4) Make stronger connection among parents, teachers and children and create an approoriate Internet-using environment. 3. For parents and children (1) Parents should be more liberal to face children’s Internet-using behavior and set up Internet-using regulations together to ensure proper Internet-using behavior. (2) Teach children to have a better self-management on the Internet. So children can properly take the advantages of the Internet. (3) Parents should also possess basic Internet-using common senses and learn with their children. 4. For further studies: include advices on samples and methodologies.