This study is aimed at examining the change in juveniles' knowledge about and attitude towards the old resulting from volunteer activities in Nursing Home, as well as the relationship between those two. The ultimate goal of this study is to provide with the preliminary data for the development of juveniles' volunteer activity program.
In order to achieve these goals, some issues were selected as the following.
Firstly, how do juveniles' knowledge about and attitude towards the old depend on their sociology of population and the characteristics of volunteer activity?
Secondly, what is the relationship between juveniles' knowledge characteristics of volunteer activity?
Secondly, what is the relationship between juveniles' knowledge about and attitude towards the old according to the characteristics of their volunteer activity?
Thirdly, what is the effect of juveniles' knowledge about the old on their attitude towards the old according to the characteristics of the volunteer activity?
As the target of this research, boy and girl students from 10th to 12th grade in a high school neighboring the Nursing Home were chosen. Systemized questionnaires were distributed during the research period of May 11th-18th in 2007, and among the returned 350 questionnaires were selected as the target of final analysis. The answerers consisted of 232 boy students (66.29%) and 118 girl students (33.71%), and the grade distribution was as following: 114 10th-grades (32.57%), 169 11th-grades (48.29%), and 67 12th-grades (19.14%).
For data processing, SPSS 15.0 was used for statistical analysis, and in order to explore the target's difference in the knowledge about and attitude toward the old according to their characters in general and type of volunteer activity and the relation between these two, frequency analysis, one-way variance analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis were used.
Following is the conclusion of this research.
Firstly, only the satisfaction about the volunteer activity showed a significant difference in each region of the knowledge. Programs involving physical contact showed a significant difference in physiological region, while those involving emotional contact showed a significant difference in sociol-familial region. About the juveniles' attitude towards the old, the average value was 4.21, implying that they have in general positive attitude toward the old.
Secondly, whether a target's grandparents and grandparents-in-law live with him/her or not, whether he/she participates in volunteer activities, and programs involving physical contact showed a significant static(?) correlation with whether they (grandparents and grandparents-in-law) are alive or not. Whether they lived with him/her in the past and programs involving emotional contact showed a significant static correlation with whether they live with him/her at the moment, and the former also caused a static correlation in the programs and attitudes.