The Quality of Life of New Immigrant Women in Taipei City
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Lin, Yu-Fang
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to understand and identify the predictive factors on quality of life for new immigrant women in Taipei City. A cross-sectional research design and purposive sampling were used in our study. A total of 120 new immigrant women that have resided in Taipei City for at least one year were recruited from community group activities (such as Chinese literacy classes, computer classes, etc.). These community group activities were provided by the twelve district offices in Taipei City or by the Taipei City New Immigrants’ Hall. Three questionnaires for new immigrant women were used to collect data: (1) demographic Information, (2) questionnaire regarding the quality of life, and (3) questionnaire of social support. All data were coded and analyzed using SPSS version 17.0 with descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression.
Our findings have indicated that the participants in this study had slightly higher than average scores in quality of life (3.45 points). The mean scores of quality of life subscales in descending order were the social relationship domain, psychological domain, physical domain, and environmental domain. The significant associated demographic factors for new immigrant women quality of life were education, working status, acquaintance way with spouse, current health status, relationships with spouse, and economic status of the family of the spouse. Our findings also indicated that the social support and quality of life were significant and positively correlated. Based on the multiple regression analysis results, the social support, the economic status of the family of spouse, acquaintance way with spouse, and working status were significant variables that explained the 44% of the total variance in quality of life. In order to improve better quality of life for new immigrant women, community health nurses should provide more social support and available community resources for them. For these new immigrant women that are unemployed, with low economic status, or got married through marriage brokers, community health nurses must carefully assess how their family functions and provide proper intervention to improve their quality of life.
Subjects
new immigrant women
quality of life
social support
Type
thesis
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