| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 長期照護研究所 === 103 === The issues on aging had been drawing attention since Taiwan became an aging
society in 1993. Literature on those issues to date was, however, more physiologically
rather than psychologically focused. This void seemed incongruent with the psychological
impacts aging process might have on the elderly people who were at risk for low life
satisfaction and depressive moods due to life stressors.
This study attempted to fill this void in the literature by probing the role of religiosity
in alleviating the impact of aging related stressors on life satisfaction and depressive
moods among elderly people in Taiwan. The purpose of this study was three-fold:
1. to analyze the current states of religiosity, life satisfaction, and depressive mood in a
nationally representative sample of the elderly people in Taiwan,
2. to investigate the buffering effect of religiosity on alleviating the impacts of stressors on
life satisfaction and depressive moods.
3. to draw the implications for practices from the results of this study.
This research employed a cross-sectional design with secondary analyses. The Data,
called the Taiwan Longitudinal Study of Aging (TLSA), contained six wave of
longitudinal information. They were collected by a research team commissioned by Health
Promotion Administration (HPA) from a nationally representative sample of the elderly
people in 2007 in Taiwan. This study used the sixth wave of data, also the most recent or
updated, for analyses, including descriptive and bi-variance, and multi-variate hierarchical
regression statistics through SPSS version 22.0.
The results showed that a positive effect on religiosity in buffering the stressors
toward depressive moods but were insignificant in alleviating negative impact of life
stressors on life satisfaction when demographic variables and main effects were controlled.
The results also showed that life satisfaction was higher in cases with less physical pains,
IADL difficulties, and lower religious or spiritual trust while more severe depressive
moods were found among those having more IADL and ADL difficulties, physical pains,
and higher religious trust. The academic and clinical application principles were also
purposed based on study results.
Key word: elderly people, religiosity, life satisfaction, depressive mood
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