The Relationship between Violent Behaviors and Communication Skills among Studentsof Junior High Schools in Taipei City

Autor: WU WEN-CHI, 吳文琪
Rok vydání: 1999
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 87
The purposes of this study were: (1) to understand the distributions of violent behaviors and the frequency of using communication skills among junior high school students in Taipei City, (2) to find out the relationship between violent behaviors and communication skills. A secondary analysis data drawn from a study entitled "The Health Risk Behavior Investigation of Junior High School Students in Taipei City" was analyzed. A procedure of stratified cluster random sampling was used to select the subject from the junior high schools in Taipei City. There were 1477 students completed the questionnaires. The results included that: (1) the prevalence rates of violent behaviors ranking in order were swearing (83.6%), verbally offending parents or teachers (73.1%), breaking things when getting mad (58.1%), fighting (33.7%), destroying public equipment (29.3%), sexually assaulting others (15.4%), and threatening and extorting (12.6%); (2) the students reported that they used communication skills frequently; (3) the students had more violent behaviors were those who were higher graders, males, had lower academic achievement, had lower internal locus of control, tended to approve of violent behaviors, had parents whose marriage was uncongenial, had family members and friends who had violent behaviors, and had lower frequency of using communication skills. After controlling other related factors about violent behaviors, the frequency of using communication skills was found to be a significant predictor of having violent behaviors. It was thus suggested that our government and educational department could integrate a communication skill training in an intervention for preventing violent behaviors among adolescents.
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