健康促進生活型態對成年民眾參與推廣教育意願之影響

背景與動機：二十一世紀全球資訊與科技快速發展，使社會逐漸朝向全球化發展，推廣教育的地位更加提升，全球化導致世界的競爭劇烈，多數國家進而發展有關人力資源、終身學習、推廣教育以及進修教育。經文獻探討發現過去推廣教育的研究探討人口統計變項或學習工具、教學方法對學習意願的影響，然而民眾的生活型態會影響其他時間的運用，間接也可能會影響到民眾對學習的參與度，欲探討健康生活促進型態對民眾參與推廣教育的影響。目的：一、分析健康促進生活型態對民眾參與推廣教育意願之影響。二、探討哪些因素會影響成年民眾參與推廣教育之意願。方法:同時應用紙本與網路問卷以調查成年民眾對於健康促進生活型態與參與推廣教育意願，問卷目標族群針對20歲（含）以上至80歲以下的成年民眾進行調查，問卷以不記名方式發放。本研究一共收回527份問卷，有效問卷共513份，有效問卷回收率為97.3％。結果：在一周參與幾堂推廣教育構面裡，「年齡」、「婚姻狀況」、「居住區域」、「不同行業別」是有顯著差異。在健康促進生活型態量表構面裡，「年齡」、「教育程度」、「婚姻狀況」、「居住區域」、「是否就業」、「不同行業別」、「家庭平均月所得」，都是有顯著差異。健康促進生活型態量表與參與推廣教育的意願呈相關。結論：透過本研究得知成年民眾健康促進生活型態對其參與推廣教育是呈現正相關。所以如果將其加強成年民眾對於健康促進生活的認知與連結，「自我實現」、「健康責任」、「營養」、「運動」、「人際支持」、「壓力處置」，能提升參與推廣教育的意願，落實「活到老、學到老」推廣教育之精神，並且能達到「身、心、靈」之全人健康。

Background and Motivation: Since the 21st century, fast development of information and technology has accelerated the progress of globalization. Globalization has further increased the competitiveness between the countries. The importance of continuing education has been strengthened because majority of countries have begun to invest and develop education programs relate to human capital training, lifelong learning, continuing education, and on-the-job training. According to the literature, previous studies related to continuing education were focus on the impacts of demographic factors, education platforms, and teaching methods on respondents’ willingness to learn. However, people’s lifestyles have great effects on how much free time they have and further create indirect impacts on their willingness to participate in continuing education. Seen in this light, we aim to study the impact of health promoting lifestyle on individuals’ willingness to participate in continuing education. Research Objectives:First, we aim to analysis the impacts of promoting lifestyle on individuals’ willingness to participate in continuing education. Second, we tend to discuss how other factors affect adults’ willingness to participate in continuing education. Methodology: Both in-person and online survey were distributed. The focus group are the individuals from 20 to 80 years old. The responses were recorded anonymously. 97.3% of the total 527 surveys were valid which equivalents to 513 responses. Research Result: Age, marital status, city of residency, and type of occupancy tend to have significant impacts on a respondent’s weekly number of continuing education course he/she attends. Age, education level, marital status, city of residency, employment status, type of occupancy,and household income tend to have significant impacts on whether a respondent adopt health promoting lifestyle. There is positive correlation between the scale of health promoting lifestyle and willingness to participate in continuing education courses. Conclusion: This study shows that there is a positive correlation between adults’ lifestyle and willingness to participate in continuing education courses. Assuming the scale of health promoting lifestyle indicates individuals’ awareness of health promoting lifestyle, self-fulfillment, health responsibility, nutrition, exercise, inter-personal relations, and pressure relief tend to increase individuals’ willingness to participate in continuing education. Furthermore, Implementing the lifelong learning which is one of the main objectives of continuing education may help reach the great balances in three prospective that include body, mind, and spirit.