| Summary: | 碩士 === 東海大學 === 社會工作學系 === 99 === Abstract：
Many key factors have been found influential on foster parents’ continuous willingness to provide the foster care service in many researches abroad. Among those factors, the prediction of job satisfaction has been greatly applied to understand the continuous willingness and behavior of foster parents. Comparatively, among the domestic researches, only Chen (1999) discussed their relations. However, their relations requires re-examinations since the research was conducted over ten years. To figure out the status quo of foster parents’ job satisfaction and their continuous willingness to provide the foster care service, this paper aims to probe into the relation between the job satisfaction and the continuous willingness of foster parents. The paper, thus, further serves as a preliminary reference for the future planning of foster care service of social workers and the related studies of researchers.
A self-designed questionnaire survey was conducted among the foster parents in the New Taipei City Branch Office of Taiwan Fund for Children and Families (TFCF). Out of 157 copies of questionnaire distributed, 103 copies were collected. The questionnaire return-ratio is 65.6%. Among them, 102 surveys are returned as effective samples whereas one survey is invalid. After collecting the questionnaires, to investigate the status quo and the relation between foster parents’ job satisfaction and their continuous willingness, the data is processed by applying factor analysis approach and internal consistency reliability test and statistically analyzed by frequency distribution, T-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis, regression analysis and so on.
The findings are as follows.
1.The main roles taking care of foster children are mainly played by those who are married women in the empty-nest stage or those who graduated from junior or senior high school and have steady incomes. The motivation of the foster parents indicates that given the challenge of empty-nest, they regard taking care of the foster children as an extension of their parental roles and hence gain a sense of accomplishment from their responsibility and contribution to the society.
2.Foster parents’ job satisfaction differs from one another in their personal characteristics. The longer length of service they are engaged in, the more statisfied and willing they are to provide foster care. The result confirms the previous research.
3.Among the different facets of foster parents’ job satisfaction, the rating of ourter satisfaction is the highest. However, internal satisfaction and social satisfaction are undoubtedly crucial to foster parents’ continuous willingness since the higher the overall rating of their job satisfaction is, the more they will be willing to provide foster care service. This corresponds to the related studies which emphasize that foster parents’ care experience should be taken seriously, the organization has to offer welfare support, and that the social workers play an important role in foster parents’ service.
4.Factors, such as finance, social dimension, and family support, have positive impact on foster parents’ continuous willingness to provide service despite the fact that they have attempted to terminate the foster care service.
Based on the findings above, some suggestions are listed below.
1.for practical application
a.Take account of the influcences of foster parents’ family resources on their foster care service.
b.Think highly of the self-development the foster parents gain and enrich their advantages and self-affirmation in the process of service.
c.strengthen the relationships and connection among foster carer peers and establish their peer support networks.
d.Enhance social workers’ problem-solving ability and their associations with foster parents.
e.Keep track of the human resource loss of foster family regularly.
2.for future studies
a.Subjects: Those who are interested in the topic may further expand the scope of their subject to foster families nationwide.
b.Structure and questionnaire design: Future researcher may select a set of questions for surveys according to reliability, validity and factor analysis. In addition, the analysis of reliability and validity can be further stated in chapter four of the thesis.
c.Findings: Future studies may further explore the interaction and correlation between social workers and foster families.
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