| Abstract: | The Experiential Education emerge some different perceptions for the conduct of education, the proper relationship among learning, work, and other life activities, and creation of knowledge itself. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between health effects of experiential education participators and their degrees of specialization by Short Form 36 (SF 36). The SF 36 is a short questionnaire with 36 items which measure eight, multi-item variables; physical functioning, role limitations due to physical health problems, bodily pain, social functioning, mental health, role limitations due to emotional problems, vitality, and general health perceptions. Two hundred and sixty-one questionnaires were collected from two hundred and seventy-five original surveyed participators during the period of November 2005 to March 2006; the response rate of those questionnaires was 94.90 %. Two hundred and forty-seven valid samples were selected to analyze the data. The results were the followings:
1.Experiential education participators? genders were significantly different to their degrees of specialization, physical functioning, and social functioning.
2.Experiential education participators? ages were significantly different to their degrees of specialization and role limitations due to emotional problems.
3.Experiential education participators? educations were significantly different to their degrees of specialization and bodily pains.
4.Experiential education participators? identities were significantly different to their degrees of specialization, mental health, bodily pains, and general health.
5.Experiential education participators? educations were significantly different to their degrees of specialization, the absences of activity attraction and the shortages of their physical fitness.
6.Experiential education participators? educations were significantly different to their degrees of specialization and participators? accepted prices.
7.Experiential education participators? educations were significantly different to their degrees of specialization, role limitations due to physical health problems, vitality, mental health, bodily pain, and general health. |
