| Summary: | 碩士 === 中原大學 === 教育研究所 === 101 === Abstract
The present study aims to examine hope and problem-solving attitude of junior high school students in Taoyuan County; furthermore, to explore the relationship between their hope and problem-solving attitude. The study was conducted mainly by means of questionnaire survey. Proportionate stratified random sampling and cluster sampling were applied in two stages to collect 942 valid samples from 11 public junior high schools in Taoyuan County. The survey data was analyzed by descriptive statistics analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, canonical correlation, and multiple regression analysis.
The main findings are listed as follows:
1. Problem-solving attitude of junior high students in Taoyuan county scored above the average, with “problem recognition orientation” the best, and “emotion response orientation” coming the lowest.
2. The agency thinking of junior high students in Taoyuan county scored above the average, with “family life” the best, and “academics” coming the lowest; the pathways thinking scored above the average, with “peer relationships” the best, and “academics” coming the lowest.
3. Junior high school students’ hope agency scored significantly higher than their hope pathways on “personal trait”, “family life”, and “academics” subscales; conversely, their hope pathways scored significantly higher than their hope agency on “peer relationships” subscale.
4. Gender differences were found significant only on “self-control” subscale of Problem-Solving Scale; it showed that males scored higher than females.
5. Gender differences were found significant only on “family life” subscale of the Hope Scale for High School Students scale; it showed that females scored higher than males.
6. Grade differences were found significant on students’ hope and problem-solving attitude.
7. Problem-solving attitude was significantly related to hope.
8. Problem-solving attitude was found to predict a significant amount of the variance in hope.
Based on the findings above, practical suggestions were provided to be the references for the curriculum reformation of compulsory education for 12 years; furthermore, by means of reformed curriculum in the future, it would contribute to improve problem-solving attitude and hope of junior high students, and finally to promote their mental strength as well as their viability .
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