The Influence Mechanism of Urban and Rural People’s Psychological Well-Being

• Main Authors: Fu-Shen Lin, 林富紳
• Other Authors: 謝雨生
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25135727797205155727

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 農業推廣學研究所 === 92 === The purposes of this study are: (1) to explore the psychological well-being differences between urban and rural people in Taiwan; (2) to analyze the mediating mechanism that affects the psychological well-being differences between urban and rural people in Taiwan. In other words, we try to understand whether the differences between urban and rural people’s psychological well-being are caused different types of social supports and activity participations available to them; (3) to examine whether the psychological well-being of rural and urban people is influenced by the interaction of urban/rural and the mediating mechanism. Data used in this thesis were collected in the forth cycle’s first year survey of the research project “Taiwan Social Change Survey”. The project was conducted by the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, and sponsored by the National Science Council, Republic of China. The original sample size was 1,895. After conducting missing data, our sample size became 1,870. We used latent class model and multiple regression to analyze our data. By the latent class model analyzing results, we obtained four types of lifestyles under the inner life category: outdoor-loving lifestyle(35.23%), inner-life absent lifestyle(12.57%), music-reading lifestyle(25.74%) and multi-activities lifestyle(26.46%); another four types of lifestyles under the material life category: multi-material lifestyle (17.35%), low-material lifestyle(50.44%), shopping satisfaction lifestyle(24.69%), and social life valued lifestyle(7.52%). Finally, we obtained the findings by using multiple regression analysis: (1) there is difference of psychological well-being between urban and rural people; (2)social supports have positive effects on individuals’ psychological well-being. Especially, those who have a more complete social support convoy circles are psychologically better than people who are lack of social support convoy circles or people with only own one social support circle; (3) activity participation is also good for urban and rural people’s psychological well-being. The more people participate in festival activities, the more beneficial for their psychological well-being. The psychological well-being of people who belong to the multi-activities lifestyle type are better than those who belong to inner-life absent lifestyle type. The psychological well-being of people who belong to the shopping satisfaction lifestyle category are worse than those who belong to the low material lifestyle category; (4) to have a better psychological well-being, rural people have more need for friend network or having a complete support network than urban people do. If rural people only have friend network or own a complete support network, their psychological well-being will be better than urban people; (5) rural people have higher demands for festival activity participations than urban people. If rural people have more participation in these activities, their psychological well-being will be better than urban people. Similarly, rural people have higher demand for the activities under the items of social life valued lifestyle than urban people. If rural people participate more in the activities of that particular lifestyle, their psychological well-being will be better than urban people.