本研究主要探討在花東地區擔任監所志工的人員，其性別和年齡別方面對習慣領域的三大工具箱(七光、八擴、九深)的認同程度和在教化工作應用上情形，並進一步了解八擴方法及九深原理的個人認同程度和在教化工作上應用程度對監所志工從事志工理念上和七大光明心態相符合程度的預測力情形。研究方法為問卷調查法，並採獨立樣本雙因子變異數分析、相依樣本t考驗與多元逐步迴歸分析進行研究資料統計與分析。 研究結果發現七光心態中以萬事助長和感激奉獻兩大光明心態最符合監所志工的工作理念；此外監所志工的性別與年齡別在其理念符合光明心態程度上有交互作用，其中在男性監所志工中年齡越大者其理念越符合光明心態，其中在60歲以上組的監所志工中女性顯著優於男性，但在31-40歲組的監所志工卻是男性顯著優於女性。而女性監所志工對於應用八擴九深原理於教化工作上的認同程度顯著高於男性監所志工，但在年齡別上則無顯著差異存在。此外監所志工對八擴九深原理的個人認同程度上與應用其在教化工作上有顯著的差異，可知監所志工個人多認同八擴九深原理但將其應用在教化工作上則持保留的態度。除此之外，研究亦發現監所志工在認同九深原理的程度能有效預測其光明心態的程度(β=.512***)，解釋變異量為26.3%。

This paper mainly probes into the level of approval of the prison volunteers in the eastern Taiwan area to the three toolboxes in Habitual Domains in terms of the gender and age differences and their working philosophy, and examines the situation of their applying these principles to their work of edification. It attempts to understand and further predict the corresponding individual approval and applying situation to the seven bright faith and the eight basic methods as well as the nine principles for deep knowledge. The research method is the questionnaire survey procedure, using the independent samples two-way ANOVA, the dependent samples t-test and the multi-stepwise regression analysis to collect and analyze the statistics of the research material. The findings show that the concept of all helping and contributing and the attitude of gratitude and dedication in the seven bright faith in HD best fit the prison volunteers' working philosophy. In addition, the gender and age differences indicate an interaction effect. That is, the older the male volunteers are, the better their philosophy matches the bright faith. However, among the group of volunteers aged 60 and above, the female volunteers’ philosophy significantly better matches the faith than the male volunteers’, whereas among the group aged 31-40, the males significantly better matches than the females does. Furthermore, the level of approval of the female volunteers is significantly higher than the male volunteers’ to the eight basic methods and nine principles, but there is no significant difference in terms of age. Finally, there is a significant variance between the volunteers’ level of approval to the eight basic methods and nine principles and their applying situation. The results show that the individual volunteers mostly approve the eight basic methods and nine principles in HD, but have their reservations about applying these principles to the work of edification. This paper has also discovered that the level of approval of the prison volunteers to the nine principles effectively predict their corresponding approval and attitude to the bright faith (β=.512 ***); the amount of variation explained is 26.3%.