| 摘要: | 本研究旨在探討高高屏地區養護機構老人生命意義感與死亡焦慮相關性之現況及其相關性研究。研究之主要目的：一、探討養護機構老人之「生命意義感」現況。二、探討養護機構老人之「死亡焦慮」現況。三、探討養護機構老人「背景變項」與「生命意義感」之關係。四、探討養護機構老人「背景變項」與「死亡焦慮」之關係。五、探討養護機構老人「生命意義感」與「死亡焦慮」之關係。六、根據研究結果提供養護機構工作者及相關單位具體建議。 本研究主要採用橫斷性調查研究法探討與研究主題相關資料，研究之工具乃以宋秋蓉（1992）修編之「生命意義感量表」及Thorson和Perkins（1977）修訂之「死亡焦慮量表修正版」（RDAS）為測量工具，並立意選取高高屏地區立案之養護機構共52家，有效樣本561人，將面對面施測所得資料採描述性統計、獨立樣本t 考驗、單因子變異數分析、多重比較檢定、皮爾森相關分析、典型相關分析等統計方法進行分析。研究主要結果如下：一、養護機構老人之整體生命意義感偏低。二、年齡、教育程度、家庭氣氛、親人探視頻率、家庭經濟狀況、自覺健康狀況、參加喪禮次數、親人死亡的經驗、入住途徑、機構規模、人際關係、宗教信仰、宗教信仰虔誠度、宗教活動參與度不同之養護機構老人在生命意義感上有顯著差異。三、養護機構老人之整體死亡焦慮偏高。四、性別、年齡、教育程度、家庭氣氛、參加喪禮次數、親人死亡的經驗、機構規模、養護身份別不同的養護機構老人在死亡焦慮上有顯著差異。五、養護機構老人的生命意義感與死亡焦慮之間有顯著相關性，且兩者之間呈現正相關。
This research is to understand the present situation and the correlation study about the Sense of Meaning of Life and the Death Anxiety of the older persons in long-term care facilities. The purposes of the study are as follow: 1. Discuss the present situation about the sense of Meaning of Life of the older persons in long-term care facilities. 2. Discuss the present situation about the Death Anxiety of the older persons in long-term care facilities. 3. Probe into the correlation of the Sense of Meaning of Life and the personal background of the older persons in long-term care facilities. 4. Probe into the correlation of the Death Anxiety and the personal background of the older persons in long-term care facilities. 5. Discuss the relationship between the Sense of Meaning of Life and the Death Anxiety of the older persons in long-term care facilities. 6. Give the concrete and feasible suggestions from the results. The approach of the study is to adopt the traversing questionnaire investigation to discuss the related data, take the “Sense of Meaning of Life Scale” refined by QiuRong Song and “A Revise Death Anxiety Scale”（RDAS）refined by Thorson and Perkins in 1977 as the study tools and use stratified purposive sampling of 52 Kaohsiung and Pingtung Region care facilities. Retrieve 561 valid copies. Analyze the face-to-face data by descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, multiple comparison test, Pearson product-moment correlation analysis, and canonical correlation analysis. The study conclusions are as below: 1.The Meaning of Life of the older persons in long-term care facilities tends to be negative. 2.Persons with different age, the education level, the home atmosphere, the frequency of the family member visit, the family financial circumstances, the state of health, the number of times of participating in the funeral, the experience of the family member to die, to move in the way, the organization scale, the interpersonal relationship, the religious belief, the degree of religious piety, the religious activities participation in different degrees have significantly difference in the Sense of Meaning of Life . 3.The Death Anxiety of the older persons in long-term care facilities tends to be positive. 4.Persons with different sex, age, the education level, the home atmosphere, the number of times of participating in the funeral, the experience of the family member to die, the organization scale, the maintenance status to be different have significantly difference in the Death Anxiety. 5. Between the Sense of Meaning of Life and the Death Anxiety of the older persons in long-term care facilities exist significant canonical and positive correlation. |
