The Determinants of Wellness﹕A Case Study of Taiwan
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Chu, Hsin-Han
Abstract
“Wellness” is the combination of various kinds of criteria, such as the society, the economy and the individual characteristic variables and even the level of satisfaction with wellness of one’s overall life based on the subjective and objective criteria. The survey of wellness index obtained by the Survey Research Center of National Chung Cheng University in 2008 was utilized in this study. The factor analysis of wellness was then processed. The test of the wellness affected by the key factor was also processed by an econometric model and the results would be analyzed and discussed. Additionally, the effect of the absolute and relative incomes on the wellness was another important issue in this study. Based on the assumption of variables, the influence of the absolute and relative incomes on the wellness was evaluated and then the reasonable explanation for the results was made. Moreover, the test of the difference of the level of wellness among residents from different districts would be further processed according to the survey collected from the country.
Based on the results obtained in this study, the following conclusions were made: (1) There was significant influence of the satisfaction with family relationship, the satisfaction with job condition, the health condition, the level of optimism about future career development condition of individual self and sex on the wellness. (2) The wellness affected by the change of income level was due to the mental feeling of income level that would be higher or lower than others, not due to the change of the absolute income level. Thus, the “relative income” was the important factor that affected wellness. (3) The relative income effect would not be different significantly due to the difference of living districts. For instance, the influence of relative income effect on the level of wellness of residents in Taiwan would not be different significantly because of living in the north district or in other districts. Therefore, the relative income effect would be obtained by the comparison of the mean income of national people, not by the comparison of the same living districts.
Subjects
Wellness
Happiness
Satisfaction
Type
thesis
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