A Study of the Relationship between Kaohsiung City Upper-Grade Elementary School Students’Attitude Towards Money and Their Consumption Behaviors

• Main Authors: Feng-chi Kuo, 郭豐齊
• Other Authors: Xu-Wei Shu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61311843389306307745

碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 社會發展學系 === 98 === The study attempts to understand the current situation of and the relationship between Kaohsiung City upper-grade elementary school students’ attitude towards money and their consumption behaviors, as well as the difference among different background variables. In order to achieve the research objectives, the study adopted questionnaire investigation method by taking a self-designed “Investigation Questionnaire of Upper-Grade Elementary School Students’ Attitude Towards Money and Their Consumption Behaviors” as a tool to accumulate information. The research targets were the upper-grade elementary school students of Kaohsiung City. There were 731 valid questionnaires collected. According to the results of the questionnaire, the paper used descriptive statistics, dependent sample analysis of variance, independent sample t-test, single factor analysis of variance, Pearson’s product-moment correlation and multivariate stepwise regression to carry out data analysis. According to the analytic results, the study has the following conclusions drawn: 1. Upper-grade elementary school students possess positive attitudes toward money; majority of the students usually have a Budget Plan. 2. Upper-grade elementary school students possess positive consumption behaviors majority of the students are more Creative. 3. Male students'' attitudes toward money depend on their desire over Power and Fame and their consumption behaviors in the Novelty perspective is relatively higher than the girls. 4. Fifth graders take the NON-believer financial matters perspective approach towards their monetary attitudes, that is higher than the six graders. 5. The consumption behaviors of the sixth grader in the Conformity perspective is relatively higher than the fifth graders. 6. The attitude of students in the upper-grade toward money is based on Money Anxiety perspective, their consumption behaviors is based on Impulsion。 7. From the upper-grade elementary school students’ attitude towards money, their consumption behaviors can be effectively predicted.