Table 1.
The demographic profile of participants
Measures | Items | Frequency (N = 1740) |
Percentage |
---|---|---|---|
Gender | Male | 668 | 38.4 |
Female | 1070 | 61.5 | |
Not revealed | 2 | 0.1 | |
School location | Urban area | 613 | 35.2 |
Rural areaa | 819 | 47.1 | |
Mountainous area | 308 | 17.7 | |
School level | Middle school | 811 | 46.6 |
High school | 825 | 47.4 | |
Multi-level school | 104 | 6.0 |
aIn this study, a rural area is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities but in the plain; meanwhile, mountainous areas refer to the geographic areas covered by mountains with a higher than average percentage of ethnic minority groups