A Study on the Correlations among Undergraduate Students’ Sense of Life Meaning, Positive Emotions, Life Adjustment, and Psychological Well-being

• Main Authors: YANG, CHIN-TENG, 楊錦登
• Other Authors: WU, HO-TANG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7ks334

博士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 教育學系 === 106 === This study aimed to examine the correlations among the sense of life meaning, positive emotions, life adjustment, and psychological well-being of undergraduate students at public and private universities in Taiwan. The survey research method was adopted, and structured questionnaires were distributed for an empirical questionnaire-based survey. In order to achieve the purpose of this study and maximize sample representativeness, relevant literature was collected and reviewed, and based on the results of the literature review, proper research scales were selected, which are: Sense of Life Meaning Scale, Life Adjustment Scale, Positive Emotion Scale, and Psychological Well-being Scale; part of the scales were revised to meet the purpose of this study. Next, stratified purposive sampling was employed to collect samples at colleges and universities in northern, central, and southern Taiwan. A questionnaire pretest was then conducted. For the pretest, 300 questionnaires were distributed; among them, 276 were obtained for a return rate of 92.00%, and 250 copies were valid for a usable response rate of 90.57%. The obtained questionnaires for this empirical study were then tested in terms of the scales’ item analysis, factor analysis, and reliability analysis in order to compile scales with validity and reliability. A total of 1,400 questionnaires were distributed through stratified random sampling in four areas: northern, central, southern and eastern Taiwan, with the number of samples determined according to the percentage of students in each area. A total of 1,279 copies were returned for a return rate of 91.35%; among them, 1,152 copies were valid for a usable response rate of 90.07%. The empirical data elicited from the questionnaire survey were statistically analyzed using two statistical software packages: the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences for Windows 22.0 and the Analysis of Moment Structures 21.0. The following statistical methods were adopted for statistical analysis that verifies the research hypotheses: descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, canonical correlation, and structural equation modeling. The research results revealed the following: Currently, undergraduate students in Taiwan exhibited medium- and higher-level cognition regarding the sense of life meaning, positive emotions, life adjustment, and psychological well-being. In the term of variance analysis, the undergraduate students' cognition regarding the sense of life meaning significantly varies, depending on their grades of study, religious beliefs, and romance relationship experiences; their cognition regarding positive emotions significantly varies, depending on their types of school, grades of study, genders, religious beliefs, and romance relationship experiences; their cognition regarding life adjustment significantly varies, depending on their grades of study, types of student clubs they participated in, and religious beliefs; their cognition regarding psychological well-being also significantly varies, depending on their types of school, school systems, grades of study, and romance relationship experiences. Significant canonical factors were observed among the undergraduate students related to their sense of life meaning, positive emotions, life adjustment, and psychological well-being. The undergraduate students’ positive emotions and life-adjustment ability exhibited complete mediation effects concerning their sense of life meaning and psychological well-being.