Abstract
This research aims to analyze the correlation between family support, love attitude, and well-being of junior high school students. After analyzing related literature, it is found that demographic variables like gender, grade, family structure, socioeconomic position have difference in perception of well-being. In addition, family support and love attitude has correlation with well-being as well. In order to accomplish the research purpose, this study extracted 686 junior high school students as the research subjects to conduct the home-edited youngster's family support scale, love attitude scale, and well-being scale. The three scales have all been pretested, and have good reliability and validity. We analyzed the then current condition of the collected effective questionnaire data with hierarchical regression to understand the explanatory power of the four demographic variables--gender, family support, love attitude--for well-being. The results show: 1. Junior high school students' family support, love attitude, and wellbeing reaches middle to high level. 2. The explanatory power of the four demographic variables-- gender, grade, family structure, and socio-economic status--is 2.40% in respect with well-being. 3. The explanatory power of love attitude for wellbeing is 4.00%, and the total explanatory is 34.70%. According to the research findings, this research suggests that 1. Parents should provide more affection support. 2. Grade-12 students should deal with pressures from the heavy schoolwork. 3. The studies in the future cam further explore and analyze the factors that influence wellbeing.
Highlights
Support, love attitude, and well-being would influence the youngsters' psychology and behaviors
If parents make good use of family support strategy, the youngsters' emotional and behavioral problems can be presented (Sanders, 1999)[1]. Such claim is consistent with Cichy, Stawski, and Almeida's (2013)[2] viewpoint, which suggests based on the research findings that family support should be provided to improve emotions
As for ΔR2=.284, ΔF =92.667, and p=.000, showing that after thrust each aspect of family support, increment of model 2 has statistical meaning; that is, each aspect of family support can contribute extra 28.40%'s explanatory power
Summary
Love attitude, and well-being would influence the youngsters' psychology and behaviors. Lu (1998)[21] pointed that in youth stage, love would affect well-being; Huang (2011)[22] took college athletes as the research subject and obtained results showing that love attitude can effectively predict interpersonal well-being; Lin(2012)[23] took vocational high school students as the research subjects and found that their love relationship does have positive correlation with well-being. With structural equation model, Lin (2012)[23] took Taiwan 697 vocational high school students as the research subject, and analyzed the correlation degree of the four variables--wellbeing, love relationship, sex attitudes, and date violence. It is worthy of further exploration into junior high school students' love attitude
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