| Summary: | 碩士 === 中山醫學大學 === 心理學系暨臨床心理學碩士班 === 102 === The purpose of the research is to explore the relationship among middle-aged and older people’s personality, social support, coping style, and quality of life in Taiwan. This is a cross-sectional study and there were 653 participants (442 middle-aged people and 211 older people) from Taiwan, including Penghu country. The instruments applied in this study are EPQ (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire), the revised version of ISSB (Inventory of Social Support Behavior), Brief-COPE, and WHOQOL-BREF (Taiwan version). The collected deta were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, pearson product-moment correlation and structural equation modeling (SEM). The results were as fowllows:
1. Middle-aged people reported significantly higher scores than did older people in all dimentions of WHOQOL-BREF.
2. Middle-aged people reported significantly higher scores than did older people in extoversion scale of EPQ; older people reported significantly higher scores than did middle-aged people in neuroticism scale of EPQ.
3. Middle-aged people reported significantly higher scores than did older people in emotional support scale, guidance support scale, social activity support and overall social support scale of ISSB.
4. Middle-aged people reported that they are prone to adopt positive coping style when facing problems; but older people reported that they are prone to adopt negative coping style when facing problems.
5. The demographic variables of age, income, health, education, and marriage state had significantly effects on quality of life except gender.
6. The SEM of personalty, social support, coping style and qualityof life can fit the data mostly that researcher had collected. The main findings of this study were as follows:
(1) Personality, social support, and coping style had direct effects on quality of life.
(2) Personality had direct effects on both social support and coping style, but the path of exetroversion personality to negative coping style is not significant, this unexpected result may be affected by the mediation of social support or the character of samples.
(3) Personality had indirect effect on quality of life via social support and coping style.
(4) Social support had direct effect on coping style; it also had indirect effect on quality of life via coping style.
Finally, the researcher proposed some suggestions for middle-aged and older people and further studies.
Keywords: personalty, social support, coping style, quality of life, middle-aged and older people
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