碩士 / 中國文化大學 / 生活應用科學研究所碩士在職專班 / 94 / Abstract
The purpose of this research was to explore the daily lifestyle of the elderly people in the fishing village in Taiwan. This study case was based on qualitative research, the direct involvement and observation method. With the result that I found their essential needs and made my suggestion.
The object I focused on was the elderly people aged above 70 who have lived in the fishing village of Maoao located in the northeast in Taiwan for fifty years. Built on a solid foundation of phenomenological perspectives and grounded theory, my research was conducted also by means of direct involvement, observation, in-depth conversational interviews, narrative analysis, and narrative thinking, which met the requirement of information analysis in qualitative research. With these methods, I provided conclusive findings by using the theories of induction, analogy, interpretation and comparison as well.
According to the result of conversational interviews, I explored and analyzed the lifestyle of the elderly people from five aspects including clothes, food, living and transportation, the characters of the participants in the fishing village, social supports (net), leisure activities (social participation), and life meaning.
The major findings were as follows:
1. Clothes, food, living and transportation of the elderly.
The daily food and economical crops mainly come from seaweed and seafood, such as fish, shrimps, and crams etc., in addition, fruit, vegetables, dried vegetables, and pickled vegetables are also their financial resource.
In fishing village, the elderly people built their own houses with stones collected from the seashore. Such materials are not only firm but also endurable. The elderly wear general attire to keep away from cold.
There is no public transportation in the fishing village. Some of the elderly go to work on foot, while some by bicycles. Outside the fishing village, most of them take the buses or trains to their workplaces.
2. The religious belief is the main symbol of spiritual dependence, the activity of daily leisure, the relationship of social participation, and the significance of life meaning for the participant.
3. The positive religious belief of the participant can confront the superstition of rituals.establishes the balanced mutual relationship. Likewise, the participant is the vital supportive and affective resource of his relatives and friends.
5. The participants in fishing village receive some supports from the social institutes, for example, religions, Tai Power, and fishing associations more than those elderly who live in other areas.
6. The participant develops a deep meaning of life through his volunteer for community service.
7. The participant considers good health the best social welfare, besides, he dubs himself “a non-consumption and non-production group”, and assures that he is financial independence and needs no allowance form his children.
8. Each of the elderly has his or her own value system of life to respond to his or her own meaning of life.
9. The participant could accept the simple and sacred funeral ceremony after his death, and prefer being buried under the sea.
10. The participant began to concern himself about the meaning of life while facing the death. Consequently, he tried hard to scheme and modify his attitude to life. As a result, it made him to look back his life and forwarded a prospective meaning to his future.
11. The participant’s life style and life meaning emphasizes the importance of spiritual satisfaction rather than that of material comforts.
12. Most of the elderly people contributed their personality type and development to their self-integration and mature characters.
13. Apart from the habits and the residence, the elderly developed their own life type due to their interests, activities, and perspectives.
14. Except the related data of the clothes, food, living, and transportation of the elder people, this study could present a further understanding of the participants’ life style through the investigation of their characters, social supports, leisure activities, and life meaning.
Finally, I made my suggestion with three dimensions including the welfare of the elderly, the support of the government organizations, and the direction of the future study to explain my thinking and experience on this case study in qualitative research.
Key words: fishing village the elderly people lifestyle case study qualitative research
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/094PCCU1115008 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Tsuei, Yen-Mei, 崔延美 |
| Contributors | Li, Gung-Pei, Ph.D., Huang, Yu-Ting, Ph.D., 李庚霈, 黃郁婷 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 197 |
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