Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 社會學系 === 89 === ABSTRACT
Nowadays, the housewives’ quantity and quality of social support are confined to limited social network. Because of the lack of the social support, housewives lapsed into depression. To solve this problem, the better way is to encourage them to participate in voluntary work.
The purpose of this study is to compare the housewives’ social support in volunteering with those who aren’t in volunteering. In addition, many studies suggest that doing voluntary work can improve marital satisfaction and parent-child relationship. This study also compares the voluntary housewives’ marital satisfaction and parent-child relationship with general housewives’. Furthermore, use the factor analysis to reduce the data of volunteers’ participating motivations. Finally, it also studies the correlation among housewives’ marital satisfaction, parent-child relationship and social support.
The questionaries were used to collect data. The cases include 216 housewives who come from six voluntary organizations and 156 housewives who are not in volunteering. It shows that the housewives’ social support and marital satisfaction in volunteering are better than those who are not in volunteering. Second, the motivations of participating in voluntary work can be reduced into three factors: (1)desire for contribute to society;(2)desire for self-growth;(3)do not have specified desire. At last, the study shows that there are strong correlation among housewives’ social support, marital satisfaction and parent-child relationship.
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