Raising Insects with an Application to Enhance Students' Self-Confidence in Interacting with Insects

Autor/inn/en	Hong, Jon-Chao; Hwang, Ming-Yueh; Tai, Kai-Hsin; Ye, Jian-Hong
Titel	Raising Insects with an Application to Enhance Students' Self-Confidence in Interacting with Insects
Quelle	In: Interactive Learning Environments, 30 (2022) 5, S.803-820 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hong, Jon-Chao) ORCID (Hwang, Ming-Yueh) ORCID (Tai, Kai-Hsin) ORCID (Ye, Jian-Hong)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1049-4820
DOI	10.1080/10494820.2019.1687524
Schlagwörter	Grade 8; Middle School Students; Entomology; Extraversion Introversion; Neurosis; Educational Games; Student Interests; Self Esteem; Personality Traits; Affective Behavior; Fear; Personality Measures; Teaching Guides; Big Five Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Entomologie; Neurose; Educational game; Lernspiel; Studieninteresse; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Furcht; Lehrerhandbuch
Abstract	Insect phobia may last for a lifetime and needs to be overcome. This study aimed to design an application, Insect Garden, for students to learn about and experience how to raise four types of insect: Giant Asian Mantis, Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle, Formosan Stag Beetle, and Seven-Spotted Ladybug. It also investigated how the players' self-confidence in interacting with insects could be enhanced. Additionally, to understand the affective factors related to gameplay, this study explored the correlates between personality, insect phobia before gameplay, gameplay interest and self-confidence enhancement in interacting with insects. Data were collected from 211 eighth-grade students, from whom 175 useful data were subjected to confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results revealed that Extraversion is positively related to gameplay interest but not to Insect phobia, whereas Neuroticism is positively related to Insect phobia and gameplay interest. Insect phobia is negatively related to self-confidence enhancement in interacting with insects, but gameplay is positively related. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01