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A Study on the Attitude of the Vocational High School Students towards Love

Abstract
This study, based on the method of questionnaire survey and interview, mainly investigate the attitude towards love among the vocational high school students. In the process, the researcher made reference to correlated documents first, and then inducted the information as the reference of study design. Furthermore, the researcher modified the Love Attitudes Scale by Hendrick & Hendrick (1986) and experienced the pre-tests and formal tests. By the information of statistics and analysis, this study investigated the differences among the vocational high school students in personal factors (grade or sex), personal experiences of falling in love (times of having fallen in love, whether being falling in love or not, or the lasted time of falling in love) and the condition of his/her parents¡¦ relations (very good, good, bad or very bad). Simultaneously, the researcher picked six boys and six girls as interviewers, making the semi-structured interviews according to the outlines of six distinct attitudes for love. This study summed up the connected information which analyzed the love in the mind of the vocational high school students. Through the discussions and analyses, this study came to the following conclusions:
1. The students of first grade in vocational high school, whose attitude towards love tends to ¡§storge¡¨ more.
2. The girls in vocational high school, whose attitude towards love tends to ¡§pragma¡¨ more.
3. The boys in vocational high school, whose attitude towards love tends to ¡§eros¡¨, ¡§ludus¡¨, ¡§storge¡¨, ¡§mania¡¨ and ¡§agape¡¨ more than the girls.
4. Investigating the attitudes towards love in distinct experiences of falling in love among the vocational high students by means of the formal questionnaire, this study got the following points:
(1) Those who fell in love once to four times tend towards ¡§eros¡¨ more than those who never fell in love.
(2) Those who never fell in love tend towards ¡§ludus¡¨ more than those who fell in love once to four times.
(3) Those who never fell in love tend towards ¡§storge¡¨ more than those fell in love once to four times and those more than four times.
(4) Those who are falling in love now tend towards ¡§eros¡¨ more than those who are not falling in love now.
(5) Those who are not falling in love now tend towards ¡§ludus¡¨ more than those who are falling in love now.
(6) Those who are falling in love now tend towards ¡§agape¡¨ more than those who are not falling in love now.
(7) Those who fell in love for 6 to 12 months and those for more than one year tend towards ¡§eros¡¨ more than those who fell in love for 1 to 3 months and those who never fell in love.
(8) Those who never fell in love tend towards ¡§ludus¡¨ more than those who fell in love for more than one year.
(9) There is not evident difference between the attitudes towards love among the vocational high students and the condition of their parents¡¦ relations (very good, good, bad or very bad).
5. This study got the following points from the interview.
(1) The definition for love among the vocational high students is that there are feelings between two sides, that they are willing to give to each other without any complaint and regret and that there is the phenomenon of owning him/her by herself/himself.
(2) Family is the earliest organization that one steps into the society. It¡¦s an important institution as well. As parents, they are supposed to pay attention to the feeling management so that there are good interactions with their children. As a result, their children can get well along with the opposite sex.
(3) The Mr. Right in vocational high students¡¦ hearts is supposed to have both ¡§the outer¡¨ and ¡§the inner¡¨. The former includes the height, the appearance and wearing long hair. The latter includes the emotional conditions (personal quality, talent, character, behave and obedience, ¡Ketc.) and the instrumental conditions (being good at study, sport, specialty and home chores, ¡Ketc.)
(4) According to the response for the questions of the formal questionnaire from the interview, most of the questions were able to investigate the inner view points of the interviewers, except for the question 10, 13, and 26 about ¡§ludus¡¨ are completely opposite, and question 2, 5, 21 and 27 about ¡§storge¡¨ and question 7 about ¡§mania¡¨ are not correspondent completely.
According to the above conclusions, this study puts forward the proposals that are classified as the fallowing:
1. The suggestions for students. (See this thesis)
2. The suggestions for parents in teaching their children. (See this thesis)
3. The suggestions for educators. (See this thesis)
4. The suggestions for being engaged in research. (See this thesis)
5. The suggestions for the study method. (See this thesis)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0724104-011859
Date24 July 2004
CreatorsTung, Fu-chiang
ContributorsDer-long Fang, Huei-mei Wei, none
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0724104-011859
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