社會支持與靈性健康對社工系學生憂鬱情緒影響之研究

A study on the effect of social support and spiritual health on depressive mood among social work students

本研究主要探討社會支持對憂鬱情緒的影響，並以靈性健康為中介變項，在本研究中，靈性健康區分為個人、社群、環境、超然四個構面，研究對象為北部地區的社工系學生。測量工具上，社會支持採用肖水源（1994）的社會支持評定量表，靈性健康修改自李孟芬與石泱（2021）的老人靈性健康量表，憂鬱情緒測量採用李昱等人（2000）的臺灣人憂鬱情緒量表。透過網路問卷發放方式，於2022年5至8月進行資料蒐集，共回收有效問卷250份。研究結果顯示，社會支持有助於降低憂鬱情緒，且可以提升靈性健康（包含個人、社群、環境、超然四個構面），而靈性健康也有助於減緩憂鬱情緒，但社會支持不會對憂鬱情緒直接產生影響，而是透過個人靈性和環境靈性間接影響憂鬱情緒。研究者建議未來的大學社工教育當中應融入靈性健康的課程，方有助於降低社工系學生的憂鬱情緒。

This study mainly explores the impact of social support on depressive mood and uses the four dimensions of spiritual health (individual, community, environment, and transcendent) as mediating variables; the research subjects are social work students in universities in northern Taiwan. In this study, Xiao’s“Social Support Rating Scale”(1993) was used as a measurement tool for social support; spiritual health is measured by Li and Shih’s“Spiritual Health Scale for the Elderly”(2021), and it is divided into four dimensions: personal spirituality, community spirituality, environmental spirituality, and transcendental spirituality; the depressive mood is measured by Li et al.’s“Taiwanese Depression Scale”(2000). The data were collected via online survey between May and August in 2022, and a total of 250 questionnaires were valid. The research results show that social support can reduce depressive mood and improve spiritual health (including individual, community, environment, and transcendent). Spiritual health can also alleviate depressive mood, but social support does not directly affect depressive mood; rather, it affects depressive mood indirectly through individual spirituality and environmental spirituality. The researchers suggest that spiritual health courses should be integrated into social work education in the future, which can help reduce depression among social work students.