[[alternative]]The Impact of the Death Education Course on the Purpose in Life and Death Attitude of the Drug Jailbirds--Take a Drug Abuser Treatment Center as an Example

[[abstract]] 本研究的主要目的乃在設計一套適合於毒品犯之死亡教育課程，藉由生命意義量表及死亡態度量表的施測，以了解死亡教育課程對毒品犯生命意義感與死亡態度之影響。 本研究採等組前後測設計準實驗研究，以基隆戒治所六十名毒品犯為對象，隨機分派實驗組及控制組各三十人。實驗組受試者接受每節五十分鐘共十節課的死亡教育課程，控制組在實驗期間則不接受任何處理。兩組受試者同時以生命意義量表及死亡態度量表進行前測、後測及追蹤測量，所得資料則以「2 ×3二因子混合設計變異數分析」以驗證研究假設，並再以課程回饋單來了解受試者學習成效與滿意度，以探討死亡教育課程對毒品犯之影響。 本研究結果發現： 一、死亡教育課程可以正向地改變毒品犯在生命意義量表中的「個人價值感」、「方向感」和「自主感」，以及在死亡態度量表中「死亡逃避」、「中性接受」和「逃離接受」的態度，且效果可持續到四週之後。 二、死亡教育課程雖可正向地改變毒品犯在生命意義量表中的「充實感」，以及在死亡態度量表中「死亡恐懼」和「趨近接受」的態度，但無法達到顯著效果。 三、由課程回饋單中可以發現，死亡教育課程確實能讓毒品犯以更坦然的態度面對死亡，並展現更珍惜現有生命的積極態度。 綜合以上結果發現，本研究之死亡教育課程可以正向地改變毒品犯之生命意義感與死亡態度。本研究亦根據上述之研究結果，提出進一步的討論與建議，俾供國內從事相關研究及實務工作者之參考。[[abstract]] The purpose of this research is to design a program for the death education course for drug jailbirds. Applying the “purpose in life scale” and the “death attitude scale”, we understand the impact of the death education course on the purpose in life and death attitude of the drug jailbirds. The research used “pretest-posttest control-group quasi-experiment research”, randomly choosing 60 drug jailbirds from Keelong drug abuser treatment center, and divided them into “experiment group” and “control group”, 30 people in each group. The participants in experiment group took 10 death education courses, 50 minutes each course. The participants in control-group do none. Both groups used the pretest- posttest “purpose in life scale” and “death attitude scale” and follow-up test. The consequence proved the assumptions of the researchers by “Verified by Mixed-designed two-way ANOVA”, and then using interview outline to understand the learning result and satisfaction of the participants, in order to probe into the influence of the death education course on the drug jailbirds. The result of this research: 1.The death education course can positively change their attitude on “sense of personal value”, “sense of direction”, “sense of being one’s own master”, “death avoidance” attitude, “neutral acceptance” attitude, “escape acceptance” attitude, and the effect lasted for more than 4 weeks. 2.Although the death education course can positively change the drug jailbirds' attitude to the “sense of abundance”, “fear of death” and “approach acceptance”, the effect is not obvious. 3.Form interview outline we found “death education course” could indeed let the drug jailbirds face death easily, and show that they cherish and are more active toward their lives. Concluding above results, we find out this research of the “death education course” can positively change drug jailbirds' sense of purpose in life and death attitude. According to above consequences the research also proposes further steps for discussion and suggestion so that we can provide the reference for relevant researchers and practitioners