臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

In recent years, the number of Vietnamese people living, working and studying abroad is increasing. Vietnam is a populous country with the economy in the development phase should remain quite poor and somewhat inferior to neighboring countries in the Southeast Asia region. So for people with difficult family circumstances, there are no better learning conditions to find a stable job with good salary, they have the desire to go abroad, which would give them one of work with higher wages to improve their lives. Also, many students looking for a modern learning environment for better education, so they choose to study abroad. However, for people leave away from home to study and work in totally alien environment, they will certainly have to face to difficulties. They will have to learn how to live, how to work, how to adapt to other cultures and other languages. Therefore, in order to understand their subjective well-being it is important to understand how well they adapt to the social culture environment in the new environment. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the subjective well-being of Vietnamese college/graduate students and contracted workers in Taiwan. These two groups have different demographic background and very different life circumstance. To understand their quality of life in Taiwan this study use both Subjective Well-Being Questionnaire and social adaptation scale for investigation.
The main results suggest Vietnamese students have satisfactory quality of life in Taiwan, whereas Vietnamese Labor has dissatisfactory quality of life in Taiwan. Every component of Subjective Well-Being indicated that Vietnamese students had higher scores than labors. We provide some speculation as to why these differences occur, such as challenge in life, education level, finance situation. But it does require more research to understand better reasons these important differences.
Keywords: Subjective well-being, Vietnamese students, Vietnamese labors, Social-adaptation.

Abstract i
Acknowledgement iii
Table of content …………………………………………………………………………iv
List of table ……………………………………………………………………………...x
List of figure…………………………………………………………………………....xii
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Background 1
1.2 Research Objectives 2
Chapter 2 Literature Review 4
2.1 Subjective well-being understanding 4
2.2 Conceptual Structure of The Thesis 5
2.3 Components of Subjective Well-being 7
2.3.1 Evaluative 7
2.3.1.1 Life Evaluation Index …………………………………………………………...8
2.3.1.2 Life Satisfaction …………………………………………………………………8
2.3.2 Emotional Experience 9
2.3.2.1 Happiness Rating ……………………………………………………………….11
2.3.2.2 Affective Experiences…………………………………………………………..11
2.3.3 Eudemonic 13
2.4 Adaptation 14
2.4.1 Adaptation Understanding 14
2.4.2 Measuring Adaptation 15
Chapter 3 Methodology 17
3.1 Research Process 17
3.2 Formal Study 18
3.2.1 Questionnaire Structure 18
3.2.2 Measurements and Scales 22
3.2.3 Sampling Procedure 24
3.3 Data analysis 25
3.3.1 Descriptive analysis 25
3.3.2 Reliability test 25
3.3.3 Exploratory Factor analysis 26
3.4 The Independent-Sample T test 27
3.5 Multiple Linear Regression Model 27
Chapter 4 Results 29
4.1 Descriptive analysis 29
4.1.1 Demographic profile of sample data 29
4.1.2 Frequency of Vietnamese students 30
4.1.3 Frequency of Vietnamese labors 33
4.1.4 Comparison between Vietnamese students and labors’ satisfaction 34
4.2 Reliability analysis 35
4.3 Summary index for components of subjective well-being 36
4.3.1 Summary index for life satisfaction 36
4.3.2 Summary index for happiness rating 37
4.3.3 Summary index for positive and negative affect 37
4.3.4 Summary index for eudemonic 38
4.3.5 Summary index for adaptation………………………………………………........39
4.4Comparison between Vietnamese student and labor 41
4.4.1 Comparison between Vietnamese student and labor’s satisfaction 41
4.4.2 Comparison between Vietnamese students and labors’ overal well-being 41
4.4.3 Comparison of life satisfactionbetween students and labors……………………..43
4.4.4 Comparison of emotional experiences between Vietnamese students and labors...43
4.4.4.1 Comparison between Vietnamese students and labors’ happiness rating 43
4.4.4.2 Comparison of affective experience between Vietnamese student and labor 44
4.4.5 Comparison of life meaningfulness between Vietnamese student and labor 45
4.4.6 Comparison of adaptation between Vietnamese student and labor……………….46
4.5 Comparison of subjective well-being by gender……………………………………47
4.5.1 Comparison of Vietnamese students’ well-being between male and famale 48
4.5.2 Comparison of Vietnamese labors’ well-being between male and female ………49
4.6 Multiple Linear Regression Model 50
4.6.1 Standardized regression coefficients for predicting the evaluative of all sample 50
4.6.2 Comparison of standardized regression coefficients for predicting the evaluative of Vietnamese students and labor 53
4.6.3 Comparison of standardized regression coefficients for predicting the evaluative of male and female 57
Chapter 5 Discussion 58
5.1 Comparison of subjective well-being between Vietnamese students and labors in Taiwan 58
5.1.1 Vietnamese students and labors’ evaluative judgments. 58
5.1.2 Vietnamese students and labors’ emotional experiences 59
5.1.2.1 Vietnamese students and labors’ happiness rating …………………………….59
5.1.2.2 Vietnamese students and labors’ affective experiences ………………………..60
5.1.3 Vietnamese students and labors’ life meaningfulness 60
5.1.4 Vietnamese students and labors’ adaptation 61
5.2 Comparison of subjective well-being between genders 61
5.2.1 Vietnamese male students had higher level of subjective well-being than female in Taiwan. 62
5.2.2 Vietnamese female labors had higher level on subjective well-being than male in Taiwan 62
5.3 Correlation of components of subjective well-being across Vietnamese students and labors 63
5.4 Compare the determinants of evaluative for Vietnamese students and labors 63
5.5 The determinants of evaluative for male and female 64
5.6 Conclusion 64
5.7 Limitation and further research 66
References 67
Appendix I (English Version) 73
A.Student well-being questionnaire 73
B. Labors Well-being Questionnaire 79
Appendix II (Vietnamese Version) 85
A.Câu hỏi khảo sát chỉ số hạnh phúc dành cho sinh viên Việt Nam tại Đài Loan 85
B.Câu hỏi khảo sát chỉ số hạnh phúc dành cho lao động Việt Nam tại Đài Loan 91

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