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不同壓力源高齡者休閒調適策略對健康影響之探討

本研究主要目的在探討高齡者生活壓力、休閒調適策略之現況、分析不同人口背景變項的高齡者在生活壓力與休閒調適策略之差異、生活壓力與生、心理健康之影響，以及休閒調適策略對生、心理健康的調節作用。研究對象為年滿65歲以上的老年人為研究對象，本研究以問卷調查進行資料蒐集，總計發放問卷360份，回收有效問卷287份，回收率80%。資料分析運用描述性統計、因素分析、獨立樣本t 檢定與單因子多變量變異數分析。 研究結果包括下列五點：（1）高齡者生活壓不高，最憂心的是生活改變，不同性別、婚姻、年齡、教育程度、子女數量、經濟狀況、健康狀況與居住區域對生活壓力感受有差異。（2）高齡者在面對壓力時，認為休閒調適策略具有調適壓力的功能；而不同年齡、婚姻狀況、教育程度、經濟狀況與居住區域，對休閒調適策略知覺有差異。（3）生活壓力感受顯著影響高齡者生、心理健康。（4）高壓力組及低壓力組，採取高調適策略優於中低調適策略；而中壓力組在心理健康方面，中調適策略優於高低調適策略。根據研究結果，本研究對於高齡者休閒、保健與福利服務等相關單位及實務工作者，針對未來的高齡者提出增加老人休閒設施等相關具體的建議，做為未來規劃高齡政策之參考。

The purposes of this study was to survey daily stress and leisure coping strategies of the elderly, and study the relationship between daily stress and leisure coping strategy. The targeted group is elderly who age over 65 and live in Taiwan. 360 copies of questionnaires were sent out and 287 were availed responded. The response rate totally was 80 %. To analyze the data descriptive statistics, factor analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA are applied. The results are concluded as below: (1) The daily stress of the elderly is lower, they most worried about is life changes. (2)The elderly consider that leisure coping strategies are a function of the adjustment pressure when dealing with pressure. (3)The daily pressure feelings will affect the elderly health, mental health. (4)Elderly who take leisure coping strategies will enhance the health, mental health. Based on these results, it is suggested that the policy makers should increase leisure facilities and leisure programs for the elderly.