A Study on the Junior High School Student's Pocket Money Management and Size-Related Factors.

The latest empirical studies conducted by the domestic researchers show that pocket money owned by the youths is rapidly increasing, their consumption decision autonomy elevates remarkably. It not only results in unreasonable consumption market behavior, but also makes the youths' problems more serious.

Data are collected by questionnaire survey. Statistical methods,including Chi-Square Test, Variance Analysis, Scheffe Test, Stepwise Regression Analysis, and Chow Test, are employed to analyze and explore the current junior high school students' pattern and attitudes of spending pocket money, and factors influencing their pocket money size. The findings of the research, on the one hand, may tell us junior high school students' pocket money spending pattern, their consumption attitudes, and factors affecting size of pocket money.