社會資本對原鄉部落幸福感影響之研究──原住民觀點分析

Impacts of Indigenous Social Capital on Happiness: A Quantitative Research of Indigenous Perspective

本研究旨在探討原住民社會資本對其幸福感的影響，並據以提出有助於原鄉部落族人幸福感的相關建議。本研究採取質性方法進行，立意選取17位具有代表性的原住民接受個別深度訪談。研究結果顯示，無論是結合型、橋接型或連結型社會資本，皆對原鄉部落的族人帶來生活上的福祉，卻也衍生出一些嚴峻的挑戰或威脅。依據研究發現，本研究從社會資本的觀點提出六項有助於提昇原住民幸福感的相關建議，包括：（1）認知並面對部落開放須付出的代價，權衡對部落幸福感可能的衝擊；（2）透過家庭及部落支持方案，強化家庭、鄰里之情感福祉的支持性功能；（3）創造部落參與及互動機會，持續發揮部落橋接型之正向功能；（4）發揮橋接型和連結型的轉介功能，降低經濟對非正式關係造成的威脅；（5）營造部落透明的民主機制，降低權力與資源之爭奪對族人關係的戕害；以及（6）善用外部資源作為部落自立的媒介，避免陷入經濟依賴的漩渦。

This study aims to explore the impacts of indigenous social capital on happiness, and to provide suggestions for promoting happiness of indigenous people living in tribes. It shows that either bonding, bridging or linking social capital has produced certain benefits for happiness or well-being of tribal people and brought some negative effects or cost. The following suggestions are proposed: (1) to sense and face that some costs need to be paid following the tribal openness, and to consider their possible impacts on indigenous happiness; (2) to reinforce supportive function of family and neighbor on affective happiness through providing family and tribal supportive projects; (3) to create more participative and interactive opportunities for tribal people, and to develop positive functions of tribal bridging social capital continuously; (4) to elaborate transfer functions of bridging and linking social capital, in order to reduce the threats on inform relationship because of financial problems; (5) to build tribal democratic mechanism of transparence, in order to reduce the damage of struggle for power and resources on tribal people; and (6) to be best use of external resources as an agent for tribal self-reliance, in order to avoid involving in the spiral of economic dependence.