The study of the Relationship in Miaoli Junior High School Stuednts of Family Environment, School Environment, and Health Behaviors

[[abstract]]The purposes of this study were to investigate family and school environment and health-risk behavior, and assess the effects of family environment and school environment on health-risk behavior. The subjects were 506 seventh and eighth grade students randomly selected from junior high schools in Miaoli. Data were collected from students’ self-report questionnaire. The total sample size was 479 with 94.66% response rate. Further, t-Test, ANOVA and Pearson product-moment correlation, and multiple regressions were applied to analyze the data. The results indicated that: 1. The perceived family and school environment of the subjects were both positive. 2. Health-risk behaviors of the subjects were rare. However, more than half of the subjects had some "bad habits" as they went into junior high school. 3. Males and students with incomplete family structure had more health-risk behaviors. 4. Family and school environment was negatively related to health-risk behaviors. 5. The demographic factors, family and school environment could predict the health-risk behavior with 36.66％ variance explained. Gender, the cohesion, expressiveness and conflict of family, family norm, multicultural supporting, disciplinary harshness, and safety problems are the most important variables. According to the findings, we suggest that family build good relation, norms and the responsibility. In school environment aspect, teachers should increase the security of campus in order to reduce health-risk behaviors.