國中生死亡教育介入成效研究

Abstract

本研究發展與設計之國中生死亡教育課程與死亡教育成就評量表，目的在於了解死亡教育課程對國中生之生死覺識、死亡概念、失落概念、生死態度與生命意義的影 響。 本研究採用「2×3二因子混合設計」，以國鞏生為研究對象，依研究所需選取臺北市甲國中學生4班，共114人，以班為單位，隨機分派2班為實驗組(57 人)、2班為對照組(57人)。實驗組參與為期4週，4個單元8堂課的死亡教育課程，對照組在介入期間則沒有參與任何死亡教育課程。實驗組與對照組同時以 研究者所編制的「死亡教育成就評量表」在教學介入的前一週進行前測、教學介入的後一週進行後測。後測結束後一個半月再進行追蹤測驗。 資料蒐集與分析以SPSS 10.07統計套裝軟體進行相關分析，採用多變項共變數分析，以前測為共變量(α=.05)進行研究假設的考驗，由研究結果與討論歸納出本研究死亡教育教 學介入之重要成效如下： 一、死亡教育能提升國中生的死亡教育成就表現。 二、死亡教育能提升國中生的生死覺識、生死態度、生命意義，而且隨時間生死覺識、生命意義感仍維持相同效果。 研究者針對研究結果加以討論，並且提出建議以供未來研究與實務應用上之參考。

The purpose of this study was to understand the influence of the death education on the junior high school students’ death awareness, death concept, loss concept, death attitude and purpose in life through death education course designing and death education achievement evaluation. The factorial design was adopted. Four classes of 8th grade students from the specific junior high school in Taipei City were purposely selected as subjects (n=14) and randomly assigned them to experimental group (n=57) and control group (n=57). The experimental group took part in a series of death education courses for a period of 4 weeks, but the control group didn’t. The death education achievement evaluation was administered pre, post and post-post intervention to all study subjects to evaluate their death awareness, death concept, loss concept, death attitude and purpose in life. The data was analyzed by using the Multivariate Analysis of covariance with SPSS 10.07 statistical software package. The results of the study were as follows: 1.The death education courses could significantly increase death awareness, loss concept, death attitude and purpose in life of the subjects in the experimental group. 2.After intervention 1.5 months, the experimental group was still higher than the control one on death awareness, death attitude and purpose in life scores. The result of the study and applications of the program were discussed and recommendations for future research were proposed.