Study on the Relationship between Elders’ Sense of Community and Life Satisfaction—A Case of Elders’ Residential Retirement Village

• Main Author: 張菁惠
• Other Authors: 李明芬
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39857760061570591877

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 社會教育學系 === 98 === The coming aging society in Taiwan in the past decades has increased the demand of elders’ residential retirement villages in the consuming market. In order to enhance the quality of elders’ residential retirement villages, designing and enriching the elders’ spiritual life is as important as providing them with comfortable and safe facilities. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between elders’ sense of community and life satisfaction, and to understand their awareness of sense of community and life satisfaction. Therefore, the researcher focuses on the life satisfaction of those who live in the residential retirement village for this study. It is expected that the results of this study would provide the consuming market with better visions and guidelines for designing and building residential retirement villages based on the elders’ needs. To achieve the purpose of this study, data are collected by the questionnaire survey entitled “Survey on elders’ senses of community.” The sample size of this study is 83 in total, in which descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, and one-way ANOVA are employed to investigate the sample characters, followed by Pearson’s Correlation for examining the relationship between the elders’ sense of community and life satisfaction in the residential retirement village. Finally, multiple stepwise regressions are conducted to analyze the research outcomes. From the statistical data analysis and theoretical interpretation, five findings are derived as follows: (1) The elders living in the residential retirement village have high life satisfaction. (2) They have strong sense of community. (3) The highest frequency of the elders’ village activity participation is between 0 and 2, which shows the insufficiency of social participation. (4) The elders with religious beliefs have higher life satisfaction. (5) The elders’ sense of community is related to their life satisfaction, and the elders’ life satisfaction can be predicted by their sense of community.