The Related Factors of Well-Being of Retired Elders: In Positive Psychology view

• Main Authors: Jie-Siang Lin, 林頡翔
• Other Authors: Tony Szu-Hsien Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/73221955042889257539

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 健康促進與衛生教育學系 === 99 === Objective: This study examined the correlations between three pillars of positive psychological: positive environment, positive individual traits, and positive emotions. Researcher chooses Family relations for positive environment, Sense of Coherence (SOC) for positive individual traits, and Happiness for positive emotions. Methods: Use Antonovsky (1987) developed Sense of Coherence Scale short version scale with 13-items (SOCS-13), and Happiness was assessed with Chinese Happiness Scale short version scale with 20-items (SCHI) (Lu & Lin, 1998). 296 participants were valid questionnaires collected 50-75 olds retirement who retired before 2009 in Taipei City, final used for this study were 289, up to 97.64%. Participants mean age were 64.76±5.72 years, 70.6% women. Results: Multiple regression analysis found the important predictors of happiness were family relations, economic state, SOC, and health state; those four variables can explain 40.1% variance of happiness. Using structural equation modeling, analyzed the direct and indirect affect for Taiwanese retirements’ happiness, a good fit was suggested by theχ2/df (1.83), RMSEA (.05), and CFI (.90). The final structural model accounts for 51.5% of Family relations, and 30.7% of SOC in Happiness; 25.8% of Family relations in SOC, Family relationship had direct effects (7.9%) on happiness. Conclusion: The data suggest Family relations is an important role of Happiness in Chinese cultural; and SOC was a mediator between Family relationship and Happiness.