高齡者社會支持與身心靈健康對生活滿意度的影響

Abstract

本研究旨在探討社會支持對高齡者身心靈健康與生活滿意度的影響。人類的老化 是必然的過程，高齡化是當今社會普遍面臨的嚴峻問題。隨著人口老化現象日益的 嚴重，高齡者的身心靈健康生活品質，已儼然成為社會關注的焦點。故本研究專注 於探討社會支持在高齡者生活滿意度層面上的影響及身心靈健康因素是否扮演干擾 的因子。 社會支持是指個體從社會環境中獲得的各種實際或虛擬的資源供給，但個體在不 同的文化及社會背景下，其影響程度可能存在著差異。高齡者個體的健康，可以從 生理、心理及心靈和社會等層面來加以探討，本研究透過量化實證結果，通過對社 會支持和高齡者身心靈健康與生活滿意度之間的相互作用關係來進行研究。驗證了 社會支持對於高齡者的生活滿意有正向的影響，以及身心靈健康是否會強化社會支 持對生活滿意度之關係。根據研究結果發現，增加高齡者社會支持的強度，有助於 生活滿意度的提昇；生理及心理的健康對生活滿意度也發現具有正向之影響，而靈 性健康對生活滿意度之影響因未達統計之顯著效果，因此不具有正向影響。 本研究除了揭示社會支持對高齡者身心靈健康與生活滿意度之具體影響因素外， 進而為高齡者在老化及照顧相關政策的制定上提供了科學依據。在個人層次的研究 範疇中，進一步著重在高齡者生理健康對其內心的感受度，瞭解高齡者的身心靈層 面的需求；並建議政府相關部門在推動高齡者實質性及情緒性的社會支持上，可以 作為改善高齡者服務體系之重要參考，進而提昇高齡者生活滿意度，讓高齡者在老 化過程中的生活質量更加豐富。This study aims to explore the effect of social support on the physical and mental health and life satisfaction of the elderly. The aging of human beings is an inevitable process, and aging is a serious problem that a society generally faces today. With the increasingly serious phenomenon of population aging, the physical and mental health and quality of life of the elderly has become the focus of social attention. Therefore, this study explores the influence of social support on the life satisfaction of the elderly, and examine whether physical and mental health are the factors interfering the effect. Social support refers to various actual or virtual resources obtained by individuals from the social environment, but the degree of influence may vary among different cultural and social backgrounds of individuals. The health of elderly individuals can be explored from the aspects of physiology, psychology, soul and society. This study quantifies the empirical results and examines the interaction between social support and the elderly in regarding their physical and mental health and life satisfaction, examining the influence among one another. It has been verified that social support has a positive effect on the life satisfaction of the elderly. It examines whether physical and mental health strengthens the relationship between social support and life satisfaction. Physical health and mental health have a positive effect on life satisfaction, but the effect of metal health on life satisfaction has not reached a statistically significant effect, so it does not have a positive effect. The value of this study is not only to reveal the specific influencing factors of social support on the physical and mental health and life satisfaction of the elderly, but further to provide a scientific basis for the formulation of policies related to aging and care for the elderly. In the field of research at the individual level, to further understand the physical health of the elderly and their inner feelings, to understand the physical and spiritual needs of the elderly, and to suggest that the government promote the substantive and emotional social support of the elderly, can provide relevant government departments an important reference for improving the service system for the elderly, so as to further improve the life ivsatisfaction of the elderly and improve the quality of life of the elderly during the aging process.