長子長女代間交流對老年人自覺健康狀況之影響－60歲以上老年人為例

The Effects of Perceived Health Status for Elderly on eldest son’s and eldest daughter’s Intergeneration communication-A Case Study of elderly over Age of 60 years

蔡朝偉(Chao-Wei Tsai)

指導教授 ： 謝嫣娉

亞洲大學/健康學院/長期照護研究所/碩士(2009年)

摘要

研究背景：受到人口老化及少子女化的影響，迫使老年人主要的非正式支持來源逐漸縮減，又因為成年子女是老年人最主要的非正式支持來源。因此，對於受到未來家庭子女數的減少，及華人家庭有獨特性之長子繼承權責觀念的影響下，老年人與長子長女之間的交流互動程度是否會因此而有所不同。

研究目的：探討不同自覺健康狀況的老年人與長子長女代間交流程度之情形，並分析老年人與長子長女代間交流程度對自覺健康狀況的影響。

研究方法：為橫斷面之次級資料分析，利用中央研究院之華人家庭動態研究調查資料庫於西元2006年所釋出的RR2006資料庫檔案進行分析，本研究樣本對象為833名60歲以上老年人。

研究結果：研究結果發現，在社會人口特徵變項方面，女性、目前沒有工作、沒有辦理退休及過去一年生活狀況較差的老年人，其自覺健康狀況方面會呈現出較不好的結果。另外，在與長子及長女代間交流程度變項方面，發現到與長子代間交流程度對老年人自覺健康狀況並沒有產生影響；但是在與長女代間交流程度，與長女關聯交流程度愈弱的老年人，其自覺健康狀況結果是較差的。

研究結論：女性、目前沒有工作、沒有辦理過退休、及過去一年內生活狀況不好的60歲以上老年人，其自覺健康狀況較差。若與長女關聯交流與結構交流愈弱的老年人，在自覺健康狀況方面是較差；但在與長子代間交流程度方面，則對自覺健康狀況無明顯的影響。

關鍵字

自覺健康狀況 ； 代間交流 ； 長子 ； 長女

並列摘要

Research Background and Purposes: The influences of population ageing and declining birthrate have led to many challenges for informal elder care, while the responsibility of informal elder care is mainly taken by adult children. Therefore, this study selected the elders of different self-perception of health conditions as research subjects, in order to investigate the generational communication between the elders and their eldest sons and daughters and to analyze the influences of extent of generational communication on self-perception of health conditions.

Research Method: This study used a secondary data analysis of cross-sectional studies to analyze the data released from the RR2006 database of the Programs for the Study of Chinese Families of Academia Sinica in 2006. The subjects were 833 elderly people over the age of 60.

Research Results: There were three findings in the results: First, in the aspect of variable of socio-demographic characteristics, elderly female, presently unemployed, had not retired, and the elderly with worse living conditions over the past year showed worse self-perception of health conditions. Second, in the aspect of variable of the extent of generational communication between the elderly people and their eldest sons and daughters, it was found that the extent of generational communication between the elders and their eldest sons had no influence on self-perception of health conditions. Third, the weaker the extent of generational communication and associational solidarity between the elders and their eldest daughters were, the worse self-perception of health conditions was.

Research Conclusions: Elderly female, presently unemployed, had not retired, and the elderly who had poor living conditions over the past year showed worse self-perception of health conditions. The elderly people who had weaker extent of associational solidarity and structural solidarity with their eldest daughters had worse self-perception of health conditions; however, the extent of generational communication between the elders and their eldest sons had no significant influence on self-perception of health conditions.

並列關鍵字

perceived health status ； intergeneration communication ； eldest son’s ； eldest daughter’s

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