The Study of the Relationship among Learning Participation,Social Connection, and Spiritual Health of Elder Learners

Autor: LIU,WEN-CHI, 劉汶琪
Rok vydání: 2016
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 104
The main purposes of this study were to investigate the relationship among elder learners, the social connection and spiritual health. To achieve the purpose, the present study used questionnaires to survey the learners 55 years of age or older at Senior Citizens Learning in northern part of Taiwan. Using stratified proportional random sampling method, total 726 valid samples were drawn. The research tool is "The questionnaire of the relation among elderly learning participation, social connection and spiritual health", which contains the following 4 parts: "basic personal information", "learning participation scale", "social connection scale" and "spirituality health scale". Through statistical analysis of the questionnaire data, we obtained the following nine conclusions: First, the elder learners participate in the mid-to high level. Second, the elderly learners’ learning participation is related to gender, age, education, health-related background, and religion. Third, the social connection among old learners is good in general, at middle-to-high level. Fourth, the social connection of the elderly learners is related to gender, health status, economic circumstances and religious beliefs. Fifth, elder learners are spiritually healthy in general. Six, the spiritual health of the elderly learners are related to the status of their age, education,health situation, economic situation, and religious. Seven, learning participation and spiritual health of elder learners have a positive correlation. Eight, social connection and spiritual health of elder learners have a positive correlation. Nine, the background variables, learning participation, and social connection of the elder learners have predictive power for their spiritual health, with social connection as part of the intervening variables. Based on the aforementioned conclusions, suggestions for elder learners, intitutions of senior citizens education and government agencies, and future researchers are proposed
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