本土化大學生來生信念量表的建構與發展

The Construction and Development of Native Afterlife Beliefs Scale for Undergraduate

蔡明昌(Ming-Chang Tsai) ； 歐慧敏(Hui-Min Ou)

《生死學研究》 7期 (2008/01) Pp. 7-88

https://doi.org/10.29844/JLDS.200801.0002

摘要

「來生信念」在生死學的相關研究中是一個非常重要的議題，以美國為例，長期以來，即持續關注來生信念的議題。其一般社會調查(General Social Survey, GSS)的題項中，自1978年以來，每次調查均列入十個有關來生信念的題項，可見其重要性。來生信念可能與一個人的死亡焦慮、宗教信仰、生命意義感、自殺傾向等態度與行為有關，應是生死教育與輔導上非常值得探討的議題。
有鑑於國內近年來生死學的發展日益受到重視，但有關來生信念的相關研究仍非常缺乏，再加上國外所使用的相關量表內容可能存在著文化與宗教上的差異，因此，發展出一套適合國人的「來生信念量表」，誠屬必要。
本研究採取文獻探討、實地訪問及問卷調查等方法進行，研究成果除了建構出國人來生信念的主要內涵，並據以發展出一套適用於大學生的來生信念量表之外，也針對大學生的來生信念概況加以探討，並提出該量表的使用及未來研究方向上的建議。

關鍵字

大學生 ； 來生信念 ； 來生信念量表

並列摘要

Afterlife belief was a very important topic in the field of life and death studies. It has been paid attention continually in American for a long time. The General Social Survey, for example, has included ten items about the belief of afterlife every time since 1978. Afterlife belief was likely to correlate with death anxiety, religion, feeling of life meaning, and tendency toward suicide and so on, so it is worth understanding on the field of death education and counseling.
In consideration of the researches about afterlife belief were insufficient while the development of studies of life and death was respected in Taiwan, and the foreign scale might have the difference in culture and religion. It is necessary to develop a native 'Afterlife Beliefs Scale (ABS)'.
This research adopted the methods of literature review, interview, and questionnaire survey. In addition to the construction of contents of native afterlife beliefs, the results of this research included the Afterlife Beliefs Scale for undergraduate, the current profile of afterlife beliefs of the undergraduate population in Taiwan, and the suggestions about practice use of ABS and further research.

並列關鍵字

undergraduate ； Afterlife Belief ； Afterlife Beliefs Scale