The purposes of this study were to explore the love values reflected in Mandarin popular songs in Taiwan and related values among Taiwanese senior high students. The researcher adopted content analysis and questionnaire survey as the major research methods for the research. A total of 1081 pieces of lyric of popular songs which have been voted as the top 10 of each week in the CASHBOX Magazine from May, 1998 to May, 2003 were located to conduct the content analysis. The questionnaire, based upon the literature review and the results of the lyric content analyses, were filled out by 854 senior high schools students in Kaohsiung city and Kaohsiung county. The statistic measures of descriptive statistics, t-test, chi-squre test and cross tabulation analysis were used for the data analyses.
The study concluded in the following findings:
1. Love values of Mandarin popular songs from May, 1998 to May, 2003:
(1)Love is still the most important topic in popular songs.
(2)Most popular songs usually present a situation of frustration or crisis during the love.
(3)Most lyrics often reflect the negative side of love.
2. Love values of Taiwanese senior high school students
(1)Most senior high students still hold more positive attitudes toward love.
(2)The experiences of being boyfriend or girlfriend, whether to be in love presently and being crazy about popular songs or not, all three did make difference among the various aspects of love values of senior students.
(3)Gender, school location and regularly listening to popular songs or not make no difference in students¡¦ love values.
3. The difference between the love vlues of lyrics and those of senior high school students.
The results were that there existed a lot of differences between lyrics and senior high school students. Most lyrics offen reflect negative love values, but most senior high school students have opposite views toward love.
According to the research results mentioned above, the researcher found that the love values of lyrics of popular songs were different from those of senior high school students. At the same time, the lyrics did not completely reflect the love world held by the adolescent. Therefore, due to the fact that the content analysis of lyrics was not the only measure adopted to project the love values of the adolescent, it would not be the sufficient instrument in exploring fully the loves values of senior high students in Taiwan.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0627104-005856 |
| Date | 27 June 2004 |
| Creators | Lin, Jing-yi |
| Contributors | Ching-hua Tsai, Yue-hsien Lin, Mei-hui You |
| 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-0627104-005856 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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