Facing the ageing society, this study aimed to understand the needs of middle-aged and elderly people in participating social service work and to further investigate their attitudes, willingness and reasons for participation. The subjects were 585 middle-aged and elderly citizens enrolled in the elderly schools located in the Kaohsiung area. The survey lasted from November 2009 to March, 2010. The subjects were asked to respond to the Attitudes towards Social Service Participation Scale (the ASSPS) which consists of five subscales: the Autonomy in Social Service Participation, the Altruism in Social Service Participation, the Meaningfulness in Social Service Participation, the Motivation in Social service Participation, and the Accomplishments in Social Service Participation. The Cronbach £\ reliability of ASSPS was .95 and the reliabilities of its subscales ranged between .80 and .93. The results showed that the mean score of male subjects was higher than that of females in the ASSP, the Meaningfulness in Social Service Participation Subscale, and the Motivation in Social Service Participation Subscale. In view of willingness in social service participation, subjects with a college or above degree exhibited higher willingness than those subjects of elementary education level or under. Besides, participants retired from farming, labor, business, military, public service, and education sectors expressed higher willingness than those doing housekeeping jobs. The results of this study provided references for utilizing middle-aged and elderly labor force and planning social service programs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0822110-202403 |
| Date | 22 August 2010 |
| Creators | Chen, chin-pao |
| Contributors | I-Heng Chen, Ying-Yao Cheng, Pei-tsuen Tsai |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0822110-202403 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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