The Study On The Leisure Behavior Of The Junior School Students In Miaoli County

The aim of the research is to investigate and understand the present conditions of the variables impacting on leisure of the junior high school students in Miaoli County, such as leisure boredom, intrinsic leisure motivation, peer relationship, leisure participation, friend deviation and deviant behavior, the present conditions of these variables with the influence of different social and economic background of these students and the forecast of deviant behavior by means of the variables impacting on leisure of these students, such as leisure boredom, intrinsic leisure motivation, peer relationship, leisure participation and friend deviation, while putting ourselves in the 21th century's prosperous sightseeing-leisure activities and the"New Homeland: Building Communities"project. And we hope to offer some relative suggestions to Miaoli County government while planning the leisure education of local junior high school students and their leisure activities.1. The measurement of the subjects'leisure boredom, deviant behavior and friend deviation is in the middle-to-low range. Of the subjects'intrinsic leisure motivation is in the middle-to-high range. Of the subjects'peer relationship and leisure participation is in the middle range.Questionnaire method is used throughout the study with sampling from junior high school students in Miaoli County, Taiwan. The data are generated from 1603 questionnaires retrieved from totally 1800 questionnaires investigated. The efficient questionnaire is up to 89.1%. The study uses the Leisure Boredom Scale, the Intrinsic Leisure Motivation Scale, the Peer relationship Scale, the Leisure Participation Scale and the Deviant Behavior Scale for gathering data, and then uses descriptive statistics, T-test, one way- ANOVA, Pearson product- moment correlation and stepwise regression 10.0 analysis for analyzing data. The major findings are as follows:2. There are significant gender differences in the subjects'intrinsic leisure motivation, peer relationship, leisure participation, deviant behavior and friend deviation, but there are no significant gender differences in the subjects'leisure boredom.3. There are significant age differences in the subjects'leisure participation, deviant behavior and friend deviation, but there are no significant age differences in the subjects'leisure boredom, intrinsic leisure motivation and peer relationship.4. There are significant education differences in the subjects'leisure participation, deviant behavior and friend deviation, but there are no significant education differences in the subjects'leisure boredom, intrinsic leisure motivation and peer relationship.5. There are significant spending money differences in the subjects'leisure boredom, deviant behavior and friend deviation, but there are no significant spending money differences in the subjects'intrinsic leisure motivation, peer relationship and leisure participation.6. There are significant participating local leisure spots differences in the subjects'leisure boredom and intrinsic leisure motivation, but there are no significant participating local leisure spots differences in the subjects'peer relationship, leisure participation, deviant behavior and friend deviation.7. While forecasting the deviant behavior of the junior high school students in Miaoli County by means of such five variables as leisure boredom, intrinsic leisure motivation, peer relationship, leisure participation and friend deviation, there are four obvious variables in the stepwise regression analysis, including leisure boredom, peer relationship, leisure participation and friend deviation. The variable measurement of jointly forecasting the deviant behavior by means of these four variables is up to 30.7%.