The Study of Individual and Family Effect on Practice of Walking-to-School of Upper Grade Students in Urban Elementary schools

• Main Authors: Lai, Shu-Mei, 賴淑美
• Other Authors: Huang, Sheu-Jen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7248rf

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 健康促進與衛生教育學系 === 106 === Abstract Walking to school increases children’s physical activity; also, for the environment, walking to school is a good way to solve traffic congestion problem and improve air quality. In Taiwan, it is estimated that the proportion of walking to school in elementary school children is less than 50%. The purpose of this study is to analyze relevant factors influencing senior elementary school students to walk to school through empirical research, and hopefully, it can provide more effective strategies for the future planning of the government departments and schools to implement "walking to school" program. This study used data of the research project of professor Sheu-jen Huang funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2016. Students of sixth grade in five elementary schools located at Taipei and New Taipei City were recruited and finally 131 questionnaires were collected. This study used SPSS 22.0 software to perform Chi-square test and logistic regression test. The results were as the following: (1) Individual factors: The more the children expressed conscientiousness personality traits, the higher possibilities the children walked to school; also, the agreeableness personality traits showed the negative correlation with the possibilities of walking to school. And there was no significant difference for gender and BMI. (2) Family factors: Family support and the distance from home to the school were positively and negatively correlated with walking to school, respectively. There were no significant difference for factors including the situation whether children live with parents or not, parents’ education and parents’ occupation. Recommendations for further research were suggested. Future research could add more variables such as parents’ picking up habits. Also the research regions could be expanded to compare if there is a difference between regions of different backgrounds. Keywords：walking to school, personality traits, family support, distance, urban children