How Do I Know What I Care About?—Analysis of Technologies-of-Self for Undergraduates With Different Backgrounds

• Published in: Jiao yu ke xue yan jiu qi kan Vol. 61; no. 1; p. 169
• Main Author: Ding-Ying, Guo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: Taipei National Taiwan Normal University, Dept of Education 01.03.2016
• Subjects: Beliefs; College students; Cultural Differences; Educational Technology; Interviews; Literature Reviews; Statistical Distributions; Undergraduate Students
• ISSN: 2073-753X
• DOI: 10.6209/JORIES.2016.61(1).07

The purposes of this study were to survey the current status of undergraduates’ technologies-of-self and to analyze the differences of technologies-of-self for undergraduates with different backgrounds. The subjects were 1,361 undergraduates who participated in the survey study by using “The Technologies-of-Self Inventory for Undergraduates” as an instrument. The protocol of this instrument was prepared according to a literature review and data obtained from interviewing 40 undergraduates, whereas the validity and reliability of the instrument were established using a subsequent pretest in which 452 undergraduates participated. The data obtained from the survey study were statistically analyzed through frequency distribution, MONOVA, and a Scheffé Post Hoc Test by using SPSS for Windows 21.0 as software. The findings of this study indicate that the undergraduates adopted nine types of technologies-of-self: exercise, confession, problematization, self-examination, dialogue, parrhesia, transgressive experience,