The Relationships among Religious Involvement, Place Attachment and Health of Residents—the Case of the Residents in Tachia District

• Main Authors: Ting-Yi Tsai, 蔡廷宜
• Other Authors: David Fang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70165512910295782590

碩士 === 國立台北護理學院 === 旅遊健康研究所 === 96 === We used data from residents in Dajia district to examine the relationship among religious involvement, place attachment and health. We explored the degree of religious involvement toward Dajia Mazu and place attachment toward Jenn Lann Temple of residents. Futher, we examined the relationship among religious involvement, place attachment and health. The questionnaire was composed of the demographics, religious involvement, place attachment and the SF-36 in Taiwan. The religious involvement concluded religious practice, religious attendance and religious belief, the place attachment comprehended place dependence and place identity, and the SF-36 in Taiwan was composed of eight constructs to examine the physical and mental health. Results show the religious involvement toward Dajia Mazu and the place attachment toward Jenn Lann Temple were in the middle rank tended to high rank, and the residents’ health situation were nearly the same as one yaer before. Whereas the relationships among religious involvement, place attachment and health shows the higher the religion involve, the higher place attachment become. And the relationship between religious involvement and health show that the higher religious practice, the higher mental health will be. Further, we segmented groups and used multiple regression analysis to discover whether there were relationships among religious involvement, place attachment and health. We found that the relationships only appeared in few groups, such as the residents who live in Waipu, not in marriage, and 45 to 54-year-old males. According to the results above-mentioned, we made a discussion and advised some suggestions for further study.