The Relationships of Elementary School Student¡¦s Positive Thinking and Social Behaviors
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between elementary
student's positive thinking and social behaviors. Two hundreds and seventy-nine students were conveniently selected from 5 public elementary schools in Kaohsiung city. All participants completed the ¡§Positive Thinking and Social Skills Scale¡¨ in 2010. Descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA , pearson product-moment correlation and stepwise multiple regression analysis were conducted. In addition,4 students with the highest positive thinking score and the other 4 students with the highest social behavior were rescruited as the target students. Those students were interviewed while they accomplishing the survey.
The main findings were as following¡J
1. There were significant differences on positive thinking between different graders.
2. There were gender significant differences on positive thinking total score.
3. There were significant differences on positive thinking and social behavior scores
among different father education degrees children.
4. There were significant differences on positive thinking and social behaviors among
social economic status fanilies children.
5. There were significant differences on positive thinking and social behaviors among
father¡¦s practice styles children.
6. There were significant differences on positive thinking and interpersonal among
mother¡¦s practice styles children.
7. "Gender" and " positive thinking" are significant predictors of social skills,which
explained 49.6% of the variance .
8. Authoritative parenting practice of elementary children get a higher score in
positive thinking and social behaviors.
9. Children with authoritarian or permissive father practice,who got lower scores in
positive thinking and social behaviors.
10. Children with authoritarian mother practice,who got lower scores in positive
thinking and social behaviors.
According to those significantfinding, educational recommendation and suggestions provided toward teachers and researchers be discussed.
Keywords¡Gpositive thinking¡Bsocial behaviors¡Belementary school students
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0713110-163619 |
| Date | 13 July 2010 |
| Creators | Chou, Hsiu-Yu |
| Contributors | Yi-Wen Chen, Zuway-R Hong, Huann-shyang Ln |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0713110-163619 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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