| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會學系 === 106 === This study aims to analyze how religious and family attitude affect the mental health of Taiwanese people. The data makes use of the Taiwan Social Change Survey (the questionnaires of the family module of Taiwan Social Change Survey 1th issue of first report in the year of 1984).
After controlling personal background variables, regression analysis found that gender, activity participation frequency, traditional belief intensity, family concept, family power and family discipline can be used as predictors of personal mental health. Among them, family attitude variables can be the best explain Predict individual mental health status. Women participate in religious activities more frequently than men. Compared with men, women are less of confident in themselves, tend to have greater external influence than individual autonomy, and when confronted with interpersonal relationships and self-worth issues, they are more likely to have doubts than men. Men's self-control is weak, knowing even that they don't like it, but they are still easily out of control. Women's social expectations in role status are more than men's, and they will grow with age, the longer their education years, the less frequent participation in religious activities, the lower intensity of traditional beliefs, and the more independent family powers. Regardless of gender, the more open the parental gender role, the less family power, the more democratic of family discipline, which is healthier of the individual's mental health. However, the unmarried person has stronger traditional beliefs than the married person, which is more traditional of the gender role and family discipline. When the family concept pays more attention to personal interests and the decision-making power of family affairs is less, the personal mental health status is healthier. In addition, researchers have also attempted to analyze the effect of different observations of religious categories on individual mental health, it is found that only the Buddhist, Taoist and folk traditional beliefs can be used as individual mental health prediction variables. The Christian, Catholic and Muslim variables are not significant.
The conclusion of this study is that the participation of religious ritual activities and the intensity of faith, which does have a direct and significant impact on the individual's mental health or psychological adjustment, and the lower frequency of female religious activities and the lower intensity of traditional beliefs, the condition of personal mental health is healthier, this part is consistent with the hypothesis of researcher's research, and with the relevance is negatively correlated. As for the family attitude, the more open of the parental gender role, the less family power, the more democratic of family discipline, which is healthier of the individual's mental health. This part is mostly consistent with the hypothesis of researcher's research, and only with the family power relevance is negatively correlated. Family attitudes have a greater impact on personal mental health than religious ones. Finally, this study are summarized and the recommendations are given for future research directions.
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