銀髮族老化知識、死亡態度與宗教及志工活動參與之關係研究

本研究旨在探討銀髮族之老化知識對死亡態度的影響，及死亡態度對志工、宗教參與之影響。以立意取樣法進行問卷調查，共255份有效問卷為，進行簡單廻歸分析。研究結果發現，本研究對象老化知識整體較薄弱些，生理老化的知識越高對死亡態度沒有顯著的影響；心理老化知識越高，則較無法接受面臨死亡；生理老化知識越高，則死亡態度越正向的；而死亡態度越正向，志工及宗教活動的參與度也會越高，其中死亡態度對宗教活動參與的解釋力為最高，因此本研究在討論中提出若老化知識可以在學習階段時學習並提升，或許在老年面對心理老化的改變時，對於死亡的態度也能夠提升；而參與宗教可以舒緩面對死亡及生活之壓力。

關鍵字

老年人；老化；死亡態度；社會參與

並列摘要

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of aging knowledge of silver-haired people on attitudes toward death and the impact of attitudes toward death on volunteers and religious participation. A questionnaire survey was conducted by Purposive Sampling method, and a total of 255 valid questionnaires were collected for simple analysis. The results of the study showed that the aging knowledge of the study was weaker overall. The higher knowledge of physiological aging had no significant effect on the attitude of death; the higher knowledge of psychological aging, the less acceptable to face death; the higher physiological aging knowledge, the more positive attitude of death, the participation of volunteers and religious activities will be higher, and the attitude of death has the highest explanatory power for the participation of religious activities. Therefore, this study suggests that if aging knowledge can be learning and improving during the learning phase, perhaps in the face of changes in the ageing of the elderly, the attitude towards death can also be improved; and participation in religion can ease the pressure of death and life.