The effects of social integration and intimacy support on mental health in a Taiwanese sample

• Main Authors: Hsiu-Mei Chang, 張秀玫
• Other Authors: Ming-Chang Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15996481340575559507

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會學系 === 96 === This study aims to analyze how social integration and intimacy support affect the mental health of Taiwanese people. The data used is the Taiwan Social Change Survey (the questionnaires of the family module of Taiwan Social Change Survey 4th wave collected in the year of 2001). After having controlled the variations of personal background、the findings from OLS regression estimation indicate that the strong influences of employment、which supports the social integration hypothesis. The effect of marital status and models of living vary in different aspects of mental health. Numbers of the family with income and numbers of adult are insignificant in this study. Upon examining the influence of intimacy support、we found that personal mental health is closely associated with most intimacy support variables (particularly of kin and friends). The result of this paper implies: The influence of intimacy support exerts strong influence while social integration shows less effect on personal mental health. The concluding section of this paper discusses the theoretical implications and methodological issues of this study.