A Study on the Motivation of Participating Recreation Service Learning for the Junior High School Students on Datong District, Taipei City

[[abstract]]A Study on the Motivation of Participating Recreation Service Learning for the Junior High School Students on Datong District, Taipei City Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the motivation of junior high school students’ participation in the recreation service learning for Datong District, Taipei City. The research population was the 7th, 8th and 9th graders in the six municipal junior high schools in Datong District. The results of the research would provide the affiliated organizations with certain information on planning, designing, conducting and educating related recreation service learning. The questionnaire survey was adapted. It concluded the basic data, the investigation on the situation of participating in leisure activities and the service learning motivation inventory. A total of 620 questionnaires were distributed and 620 questionnaires were retrieved. A total 612 questionnaires were valid and the rate of valid question naives was 98.7%. According to the research purpose and the tests of the hypotheses, various statistics methods were used, that is, descriptive statistics, item analysis, Exploratory Factor Analysis, independent sample t-test and one-way independent ANOVA. The results showed that 590 interviewees, 96.4%, participated leisure activities and 22 interviewees didn’t. That is, a significant difference was showed. The significant gender differences on self-efficacy service cognition and participating motivation. The significant difference on cultivating abilities of service cognition was not found. The significant difference was not found on the various aspects of service learning motivation in different grades. The significant difference was shown on the aspect of “participating motivation” with different social economic background. In addition, on the aspects of “self-efficacy service recognition” and “cultivating ability service recognition”, no significant differences were found. Keywords: recreation activity, service learning, recreation service learning, participation motivation