| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 社會工作系 === 99 === Along with an emphasis on children and adolescent’ s rights and interests worldwide, people begin to care about and investigate current well-being of this group both home and abroad. This research aims at studying present situations about adolescent’s well-being, discussing influences of social capital on their well-being, and finding out predictive factors of well-being so as to provide a reference for improving adolescent policies and service programs. With adolescent from junior, senior and vocational high schools as study population, this research adopts quantitative research and disproportionate stratified sampling, 587 students of junior high school and 493 from senior/vocational high school are selected, 1080 questionnaires are finished, representing a high response rate of 100%. Through an analysis of statistical data, this research describes its findings about adolescent’s current social capital, current well-being, predictive factors of well-being, and model construction of well-being in Pingtung County:
1. Current social capital of adolescent in Pingtung County
1.1 Current “social capital in the family” of adolescent in Pingtung County
1.1.1 Adolescent are relatively deficient in family interaction.
1.1.2 There is no significant difference between “ethnic” and “social capital in the family”; “father’s employment” is significantly related to “social capital in the family”.
1.2 Current “social capital outside the family” of adolescent in Pingtung County
1.2.1 Adolescent are relatively low in community participation.
1.2.2 No significant difference exist between “ethnic” and “social capital outside the family”; “father’s employment” is uncorrelated with “social capital outside the family”.
2. Current situations about well-being of adolescent in Pingtung County
2.1 Presently, adolescent are least satisfied with “heath and safety” and “subjective well-being”.
2.2 Family financial status makes well-being differ significantly.
2.3 Family structure is an important factor that affects adolescent’ s well-being.
3. Predictive factors of adolescent’ s well-being
3.1 Negative predictive factors of material include ethnic groups (with aboriginals as controlled group) and number of brothers and sisters.
3.2 Positive predictors include factors of “social capital in the family”- interpersonal interaction of the family and family member’s attention to adolescent-as well as factors of “social capital outside the family”-community neighborhood, adolescent’ s peer relationship and teacher-student relationship.
4. Model construction of adolescent’ s well-being
4.1 Adolescent’ s “social capital outside the family” is more sufficient if they have more “social capital in the family”.
4.2 “Social capital in the family” has no significant positive impact on well-being.
4.3 “Social capital outside the family” has a significant positive impact on well-being.
4.4 The influence of “social capital outside the family” on “social capital in the family” and “well-being” presents a intervening effect.
Therefore, this research puts forward five suggestions according to above findings: firstly, encourage adolescent to interact with family members, actively participate in community activities and value well-being, especially health, safety and subjective well-being. Secondly, in terms of adolescent’ s family, we should strengthen interpersonal interaction through family interaction norm and behavior, and encourage adolescent to consort with life “mentor” in different relationships with adults. Thirdly, social welfare institutions should provide aboriginal and disadvantaged families with material welfare services and diversified learning chances, and emphasize on “teenagers’ development orientation”. Fourthly, concerning social welfare policy, it’s suggested to increase subsidy for disadvantaged youths’ leisure activities and public amusement places as well as stipulate developmental and preventive service policies for adolescent. Finally, future researches should expand the study objects to nationwide and never implement questionnaire investigation in May, etc. This research hopes to help provide a reference for drawing up and modifying policies about adolescent’s well-being in the future.
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