A study on social supports and the satisfaction of life for the absence of marriage female residents in the long-term care institutions

• Main Authors: Chuang-Chih-Chung, 莊智中
• Other Authors: Chou Fen-Tzu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5u3t35

碩士 === 美和科技大學 === 社會工作系碩士班 === 107 === ABSTRACT This study explores the absence of marriage female inhabitants in the institution who lack family support form their children and spouses, and who have experienced many inequalities in education, economics, and family status in the early years, after they stay in institutions in their later years. how to provide social support for residents’ characteristics and living conditions in order to increase their life satisfaction and understand the impact of social support and life satisfaction. This paper collects data by questionnaire survey, and stratified sampling is adopted in 55 elderly institutions in Pingdong County and 140 samples from 17 institutions are selected for research and analysis.This paper collects data by questionnaire survey, and adopts stratified sampling for 55 elderly institutions in Pingtung County, and samples 140 samples from 17 institutions for research and analysis. The data were analyzed by the Social Science Statistical Suite Software (SPSS), and the descriptive statistics and inference statistics (independent sample t test, ANOVA analysis, Seheffe post hoc test, Pearson correlation analysis, mediation effect analysis and regression analysis) were used for verification. The research findings show that: (1) Institutional absence of marriage female residents have significant differences in social support in terms of social support, including: economic status, economic sources, pre-stay residence patterns, and institutional social service types. (2) Institutional absence of marriage female residents' social traits have significant differences in life satisfaction, including: academic level, occupancy type and institutional social service type. (3) Social support has a partial intermediary effect on the types of academic and institutional social work services and life satisfaction. (4) Social support has a positive correlation with life satisfaction. (5) The combination of factors with the best effect on life satisfaction and the strongest explanatory power is: formal message support and informal emotional support. According to the research findings, this paper infers the following results: the cultural capital, economic autonomy of the elderly and the employment of full-time or part-time social worker services in the elderly have an impact on life satisfaction. Informational support provided by institutional social workers or nursing staff, such as learning courses, health education, stress-relief methods, welfare information, and emotional support such as care, listening, comfort, encouragement, and respect provided by children, relatives and friends, can effectively enhance the lives of residents. Satisfaction. Finally,the melancholy problem of the elderly in the institution deserves our further careful observation and concern.